Guesses at Truth, edited by Archdeacon Hare.
"By despising himself too much a man comes to be worthy of his own contempt."
Amiel's Journal.
"Just as criticism alone ministers to pride and then to death, so creation, even of the smallest kind, ministers to humility. And that stands to reason: the slightest act of shaping instantly opens before you an ever-expanding sea, and the vision of the infinite is the death of vanity and pride."
The Gospel of Joy, Stopford Brooke.
"Humility is the hall-mark of wisdom."
Jeremy Collier.
JUNE 13
"We ought to have this measure of charity for egotistical people—a willingness to suppose that they actually believe themselves to be what they assume to be. It is quite possible for a person to be in such a fog of misapprehension that everything about him—his little world, his personal interest—will loom abnormally large. When the fog is dispelled, he will see things as they are, and estimate them and himself accordingly.