It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

The blow of a whip raises a welt, but a blow of the tongue crushes bones.

No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself.

If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look on his humility as a weakness; if he is generous, we call his courage pride.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, and the other to be buried.

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.