We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.
It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.
Humility is the worst form of conceit.
We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.