Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.

It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.

The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.