Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed; if I praise myself, much less.
False praise is always confined to the great.
Beauty loses its relish; the graces never.
If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.
The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.
Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.