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.

Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.