Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

It may likewise contribute to soften that resentment which pride naturally raises against opposition, if we consider, that he who differs from us, does not always contradict us; he has one view of an object, and we have another; each describes what h

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons