It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

Even women are perfect at the outset.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

Humility is the worst form of conceit.

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.

Instead of considering that the worst way to persuade or please others is to try thus strongly to please ourselves, and that to listen well and to answer well are some of the greatest charms we can have in conversation.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.