C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Self (See Self-love, Selfishness, etc.)
Of all mankind each loves himself the best.
Terence.
Born to myself, I like myself alone.
Rochester.
I to myself am dearer than a friend.
Shakespeare.
Butler.
Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.
Whately.
We have this principal desire implanted in us by nature, that our first wish is to preserve ourselves.
Yonge.
Tennyson.
Churchill.