It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.
A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors.
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.
Friends accept you the way you are.
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.