Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men. - William Hazlitt

The perceiving our own weaknesses enables us to give others excellent advice, but it does not teach us to to reform ourselves.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.