Who said “He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced…”?

“A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.”

“A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.”

“I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.”

“Solvency is maintained by means of the national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"”

“As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.”

“Ideas too are a life and a world.”

“Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.”

“First we have to believe, and then we believe.”

“Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.”

“Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.”

“Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.”