If We Did Not Flatter Ourselves, The

Second-rate Minds Usually Condemn Everything Beyond Their Grasp.

Clemency, Which We Make A Virtue Of, Proceeds Sometimes From Vanity, Sometimes From Indolence, Often From Fear, And Almost Always From A Mixture Of All Three.

Without Humility, We Keep All Our Defects; And They Are Only Crusted Over By Pride, Which Conceals Them From Others, And Often From Ourselves.

Virtue Would Go Far If Vanity Did Not Keep It Company.

It Is Great Folly To Wish To Be Wise All Alone.