If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.
Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their trust, a pledge that gives them a claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily submit.
It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.
Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.