The Temperament That Produces A Talent For

The Only Thing That Should Surprise Us Is That There Are Still Some Things That Can Surprise Us.

When We Disclaim Praise, It Is Only Showing Our Desire To Be Praised A Second Time.

Humility Is The Sure Evidence Of Christian Virtues. Without It, We Retain All Our Faults Still, And They Are Only Covered Over With Pride, Which Hides Them From Other Men's Observation, And Sometimes From Our Own Too.

Humility Is Often Merely Feigned Submissiveness Assumed In Order To Subject Others, An Artifice Of Pride Which Stoops To Conquer, And Although Pride Has A Thousand Ways Of Transforming Itself It Is Never So Well Disguised And Able To Take People In As When Masquerading As Humility.

People Would Not Long Remain In Social Life If They Were Not The Dupes Of Each Other.