Companion Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

— Hilaire Belloc

There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their…

— Sir Fulke Greville

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

— Thomas a Kempis

“In the case of everything that belongs to the realm of sentiment, religion, politics, morality, the affections, and antipathies, etc. The most eminent men…

— Gustave Le Bon

“In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high tragedy, and…

— Raymond Chandler

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this…

— Arthur Helps

Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the…

— Charles Caleb Colton