The Desire Which Urges Us To Deserve

The Greater Part Of Mankind Judge Of Men Only By Their Fashionableness Or Their Fortune.

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.

We Love Much Better Those Who Endeavor To Imitate Us, Than Those Who Strive To Equal Us. For Imitation Is A Sign Of Esteem, But Competition Of Envy.

The Greatest Of All Gifts Is The Power To Estimate Things At Their True Worth

The Principal Point Of Cleverness Is To Know How To Value Things Just As They Deserve.