Self-love Is The Greatest Of All Flatterers.

Sometimes We Think We Dislike Flattery, But It Is Only The Way It Is Done That We Dislike.

Ideas Often Flash Across Our Minds More Complete Than We Could Make Them After Much Labor.

What Makes Vanity So Insufferable To Us, Is That It Hurts Our Own.

Self-interest Speaks All Manner Of Tongues And Plays All Manner Of Parts, Even That Of Disinterestedness.

It Is Necessary, In Order To Know Things Well, To Know The Particulars Of Them; And These, Being Infinite, Make Our Knowledge Eversuperficial And Imperfect.