Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.
It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.
Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.
When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.