True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.
Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.