Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a morecalculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.

We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.

The heart is forever making the head its fool.

Organize one's values in the order of their worth

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.