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

Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation of the virtue quite opposite to the vice which constitutes his real character; it is a deceit.

It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briers and pines. It is the same with man; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious.

Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.

A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.

A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?'