Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. – Logan Pearsall Smith

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own. РFran̤ois de la Rochefoucauld