“It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one'syouthful ideals.”
“Good words are a vain benevolence that demand no sacrifice and are more appreciated than real acts of kindness.”
“The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.”
“All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.”
“Don’t sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations… I found that out too late.”
“I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.”