There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.