Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Where an opinion is general it is usually correct.

Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest.—I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse. In the present case it took up ten minutes to determine whether the boy were most like his father or mother, and in what particular he resembled either, for of course every body differed, and every body was astonished at the opinion of the others.