Humility is the worst form of conceit.

We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.

The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.

Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us.

We give nothing so freely as advice.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.