When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.