To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.

I have yet to find a man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

A good joke is the one ultimate and sacred thing which cannot be criticized.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.