The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.

Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed; if I praise myself, much less.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying every one of his demands will oblige you to stop short at last, after he has become a little headstrong.

To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.

Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.