The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

Humility is the worst form of conceit.