My father said, "Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it read more

My father said, "Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?"

What is your sex's earliest, latest care,
Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair.

What is your sex's earliest, latest care,
Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows
That for oblivion that their daily birth
From all the read more

Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows
That for oblivion that their daily birth
From all the fuming vanities of earth.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before read more

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, Concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

Vanity, like murder, will out.

Vanity, like murder, will out.