One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Our vanity is most difficult to wound just when our pride has been wounded.

Vanity is the polite mask of pride.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.

How poor the human mind would be without vanity! It resembles a well stocked and ever renewed ware-emporium that attracts buyers of every class: they can find almost everything, have almost everything, provided they bring with them the right kind of money -- admiration.