There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.

There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.

Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.