The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.