We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.

We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment.

To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.