Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.
Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.
Humility is the worst form of conceit.
If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.
One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.