There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

Those who can bear all can dare all.