An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.