Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.
Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.
The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.
We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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.