Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

Conceit is God's gift to little men

Conceit is God's gift to little men

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is read more

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
- John Ruskin,

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
- John Ruskin,

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of
a fool than of him.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of
a fool than of him.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.

Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Brags of his substance, not of ornament.
They are read more

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Brags of his substance, not of ornament.
They are but beggars that can count their worth;
But my true love is grown to such excess
I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.