What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.

We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.