Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.
The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.
False praise is always confined to the great.
No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.
Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.
Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.