I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.
An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.
True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.
The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.
Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.
Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.