Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.