A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings. – Christina G. Rossetti

The man that shows off, to that one who wants to convince of his value is to himself. РDom̩nico Cieri Estrada

Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of a wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. – James Russell Lowell

The only man we have any respect for is the man who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) [Preceding Fischerisms entry — Karl Lu