The opposite of humility is pride, and all pride is ignorance.
If we had no pride we should not complain of that of others.
The same pride which makes us blame faults from which we believe ourselves free causes us to despise the good qualities we have not.
Pride has a larger part than goodness in our remonstrances with those who commit faults, and we reprove them not so much to correct as to persuade them that we ourselves are free from faults.
It would seem that nature, which has so wisely ordered the organs of our body for our happiness, has also given us pride to spare us the mortification of knowing our imperfections.
Pride is much the same in all men, the only difference is the method and manner of showing it.
Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
