tensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves life,
and understands the use of it; obliging alike at all hours; above all,
of a golden temper and steadfast as an anchor. For such an one we
gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the
profoundest thinker.--LESSING.

No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not
respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.--CHESTERFIELD.

A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a
man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.--ST. CLEMENT.

Let them have ever so learned lectures of breeding, that which will
most influence their carriage will be the company they converse with,
and the fashion of those about them.--LOCKE.

CONCEIT.--Be not wise in your own conceits.--ROMANS 12:16.

Conceit is the most contemptible and one of the most odious qualities
in the world. It is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to
appeal to itself for admiration.--HAZLITT.

The certain way to be cheated is to fancy one's self more cunning than
others.--CHARRON.

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless,
but impairs what it would improve.--POPE.

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a
fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation
of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false
appreciation of their own strength.--COLTON.

We go and fancy that everybody is thinking of us. But he is not; he is
like us--he is thinking of himself.--CHARLES READE.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool
than of him.--PROVERBS 26:12.

A man who is proud of small things shows that small things are great
to him.--MADAME DE GIRARDIN.

Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the
job.--H.W. SHAW.

Nature has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's
own making.--ADDISON.

He who gives himself airs of importance exhibits the credentials of
impotence.--LAVATER.

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another
talked of.--LAVATER.

CONDUCT.--I will govern my life, and my thoughts, as if the whole
world were to see the one, and to read the other; for what does it
signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God (who is
the searcher of our hearts) all our privacies are open?--SENECA.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their