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.

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.