True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.
By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.
Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.
We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.