SELF-DENIAL.
Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasurable, and you create for the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.
—Sir Walter Scott.
1714
Two things are difficult for man to do;
'Tis to be selfish and honest, too.
1715
Give us something to admire in yourself, not in your belongings.—(To one who boasts of his ancestry.)
1716
Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.
—Whately.