We go and fancy that everybody is thinking of us. But he is not; he is like us—he is thinking of himself.—Charles Reade.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.—Proverbs 26:12.
A man who is proud of small things shows that small things are great to him.—Madame de Girardin.
Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.—H.W. Shaw.
Nature has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.—Addison.
He who gives himself airs of importance exhibits the credentials of impotence.—Lavater.
The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.—Lavater.
Conduct.—I will govern my life, and my thoughts, as if the whole world were to see the one, and to read the other; for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God (who is the searcher of our hearts) all our privacies are open?—Seneca.
The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.—Junius.
Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Learn more than thou trowest,
Set less than thou throwest.
—Shakespeare.