What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God. – Monica Baldwin
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others. – William Hazlitt
You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things. – Israel Zangwill, The Principle of Nationalities, 1917
