Pride in office without competence is as much a sin as competence without confidence.

Pride is the railway tracks on which all sin runs and the locomotive that pulls it all is Deception.

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that they too fell from their high estate into all the wretchedness in which man is now sunk. In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, of
hell.