The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.