The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.

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

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

None but great men are capable of having great flaws.

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.