Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.

Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.

The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.