“Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.”

“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.”

“Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.”

“We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our little hurts will be made much of - to be content with little nurture and caressing, and help each other the more.”

“Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.”

“What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.”

“We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit: alas for us, if we get a few pinches that empty us of that windy self-subsistence.”