"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be"
"We do not look in our great cities for our best morality"
"Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief"
"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"
"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment"
"To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive"
"To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment"
"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love"
"Those who do not complain are never pitied"
"Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies"
"A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill"
