As you desire the love of God and man, beware of Pride; it is a tumor in your mind, that breaks and poisons all your actions; it is a worm in your treasure, which eats and ruins your estate ... it is the friend of the flatterer, the mother of envy, the nurse of fury, the band of luxury, the sin of devils, the devil in mankind.

The proud man lives in the paradise of fools; and neither in what he thinks, or does, or looks for, or promises himself, is there anything sincere or true.

Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness--the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.

How Pride can so far intoxicate men's understandings, as to make them fancy they are exalted by riches and honour above other men, and, in the vanity of their hearts, to look down with contempt upon their supposed inferiors, is prodigious, as usual as it is. Certainly it cannot be imagined that the richer clothes create the noble heart, or the choicer meats the more honourable blood; though with all the senseless boasting of noble blood, it is the quails and woodcocks, and other dainties, that give it all the pre-eminence it has above that which is bred by coarser diet; with the adoption of gouts and scurvys, and other honourable attendant diseases, into the bargain.

A proud man hath no God, for he hath put God down and set himself up.

Pride, by a great mistake, is commonly taken for a greatness of soul, as if the soul was to be ennobled by vice: For that Pride is one of the most enormous of vices, I think no reasonable man can dispute; it is the base offspring of weakness, imperfection and ignorance, since, were we not weak and imperfect creatures, we should not be destitute of knowledge of ourselves; and had we that knowledge, it were impossible we should be proud.

How little do they know of human nature, who imagine that pride is likely to be subdued by adversity.

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