Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which storms burst forth when one makes a puncture in it.

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, ''If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Conceit is a queer disease -- it makes everyone Sick except the person who has it.

Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.