“Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.”
“There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.”
“There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.”
“Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.”
“All is vanity, nothing is fair.”
“Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it's nothing but vanity, human vanity.”