Humility – The only true independence is in humility; for the humble man exacts nothing, and cannot be mortified-expects nothing, and cannot be disappointed. Humility is also a healing virtue:it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open. But humility is not the virtue of a fool, since it is not consequent upon any comparison between ourselves and others, but between what we are and what we ought to be-which no man ever was. Selected.