A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.

To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.