What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.

There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.

The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.