What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.