One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Our vanity is most difficult to wound just when our pride has been wounded.

Vanity is the polite mask of pride.

How poor the human mind would be without vanity! It resembles a well stocked and ever renewed ware-emporium that attracts buyers of every class: they can find almost everything, have almost everything, provided they bring with them the right kind of money -- admiration.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be ''man''!