Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

Were we not proud ourselves, we should not complain of the pride of others.

A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.

Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.

Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.

We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.