What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.
The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.
That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.
Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.
Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.