To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.

I've always been a proud man.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

I'm a proud family man.

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!