The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter. - W. Somerset Maugham
When any man is more stupidly vain and outrageously egotistic than his fellows, he will hide his hideousness in humanitarianism. - George Moore