What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

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

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.