It Is Not Enough That We Should

Humility Is Often Only The Putting On Of A Submissiveness By Which Men Hope To Bring Other People To Submit To Them; It Is A Morecalculated Sort Of Pride, Which Debases Itself With A Design Of Being Exalted; And Though This Vice Transform Itself Into A Thousand Several Shapes, Yet The Disguise Is Never More Effectual Nor More Capable Of Deceiving The World Than When Concealed Under A Form Of Humility.

A Man Is Ridiculous Less Through The Characteristics He Has Than Through Those He Affects To Have.

The Only Good Copies Are Those Which Make Us See The Absurdity Of Bad Originals.

Youth Is A Continual Intoxication; It Is The Fever Of Reason.

Affected Simplicity Is An Elegant Imposture.