We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.