Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Every savage can dance.

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.