Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves.
I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.
The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride.
A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.