Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. – George Bernard Shaw

Conscience warns us before it reproaches us. – Comtesse Diane (Marie Josephine de Suin de Beausacq), Maximes de la vie, 1908

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. – Logan Pearsall Smith

In judging ourselves, we cannot be too severe; in judging others, we cannot be too candid. We should judge ourselves by our motives, but others by their actions. – William Nevins (1797–1835)