Make your company a rarity, and people will value it. Men despise what they can easily have. - James Burgh

Do well, but do not boast of it; for that will lessen the commendation you might otherwise have deserved.

The modest man is seldom the object of envy.

If you have seen a man misbehave once, do not from thence conclude him a fool; if you find he has been in a mistake in one particular, do not at once conclude him void of understanding : by that way of judging, you can entertain a favourable opinion of no man upon earth, nor even of yourself.