A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.

False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.

There are some who speak one moment before they think