No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

It's a sad situation when you have to talk crap about other organizations that you know your paths are never going to cross competitively.

Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else's. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

People living in the vanity of their own mind not only destroy themselves, but far too often, they bring destruction to others around them.

When they measure themselves with themselves and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding and behave unwisely. 2 CORINTHIANS 10:12

The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.

On the contrary, he would come home and rail at both parties with great wrath—and plainly proved one day to the satisfaction of my wife, and three old ladies who were drinking tea with her, that the two parties were like two rogues, each tugging at the skirt of the nation; and that in the end they would tear the very coat off its back, and expose its nakedness.

Controversy is bad for the spirit, however enlivening to the wits.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.