We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

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.

A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.