Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

Wrongs are often forgiven; contempt never

The age of contempt has to end,

Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation between a man of sense and his books.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.