Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

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

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.