We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.
No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.
Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
We are never so generous as when giving advice.
He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.