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 who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

Time did not compose her.

Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

Too many cooks spoil the broth

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.