Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts
Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.
The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.