Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.
False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.
We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.