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

There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

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

Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults.