Human nature is weak, and the vanities of our system are so many inducements to overlook unreasonable regulations.

After all, vanity was not the prerogative of his people alone in all the world.

Vanity is the natural Weakness of an ambitious Man, which exposes him to the secret Scorn and Derision of those he converses with, and ruins the Character he is so industrious to advance by it.

Vanity is a strong plant, and it flourishes in every soil; but it had found no root in Ida's nature.

Therein, Vanity was the prodigious fat man, Memory the dwarf, and Veracity the living skeleton.

And besides that, mere carnal vanities are trivial things; a gray eye or so is not in the least to the purpose.

"The Recluse of the Abbaye aux Bois," she says, "had either read the story of the beggar, or her instinct had persuaded her that vanity and pride are the surest vulnerable points by which to attack and subject the human heart.

The difference between the last two is this: pride is an established conviction of one's own paramount worth in some particular respect; while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself.

Yet, if vanity be not an actual vice, it is certainly a potential oneit often leads us to seek reputation rather than virtue, to substitute appearances for realities, and to prefer the eulogiums of the world to the approbation of our own minds.

If vanity is the seed, so vanity is the fruit.

It was not that my vanity had been offendedon the contrary, Goethe had treated me more kindly and more attentively than I had anticipatedbut to see the ideal of my youth, the author of Faust, Clavigo, and Egmont, in the rôle of a formal minister presiding at tea brought me down from my celestial heights.

In very truth my good friend Ratichon is an unblushing liar, thief, a forgeranything you will; his vanity is past belief, his scruples are non-existent.

" Vanity was the beginning and end of Sir Walter Elliot's charactervanity of person and of situation.

It would be difficult to discover puerility in any of Buonarroti's utterances; and his only vanity was a certain pride in the supposed descent of his house from that of Canossa.

XIII Vanity Is a Fertile Soil for Love.

Everything, even in Christian communities, shows that vanities and follies and falsehoods are the most sought, and that nothing is more discouraging than appeals to high intelligence or virtue, even in art.

Schopenhauer went so far as to assert that both in the pain of unrequited love and the joy of success, vanity is a more important factor than the thwarting of sensual desires, because only a psychic disturbance can stir us so deeply.

Her highest aspiration was to adorn a perishable body, and vanity became the spring of life.

It may be good or evil, but assuredly it is not artificial: vanity is a voice out of the abyss.

I learnt quickly, and soon vanity at my rapid progress became the bane of my life.

Vanity was a stranger to her, as well as arrogance and pride.

" "That's true enough," said Father Payne, "and of course it is a riska man must run the risk of sacrificing a good deal of his time and energy to recording unimportant details, perhaps quite uselessly, but with this possibility ahead of him, that he may produce an immortal bookand I grant you that the infernal vanity and self-glorification of authors is a real difficulty in the way.

It pampers vanity, and vanity is the Devil's help with such; so I said No, kindly at first, sharp and stern when she kept on teasing.

Vanity is a handicap assigned to clever women by Fate, who handicaps us all without appeal.

The vanities of LifeArt, Poetry, Skill military, are subjects for trophies; not the silent thoughts arising in a good man's mind in lonely places.