“Women may be vain, but when a man is vain, it is beyond believing, for a man is willing to die for his vanity.”

“That which attracts the world must please and pander to the self-importance of man. The world itself is a vain show, and likes its own. Consequently there is nothing which so carries the mass of men along with it as that which flatters the vanity of the human mind. It may assume the lowliest air, but sinful man seeks his own honour and present exaltation.”

“The more words, the more vanity, and what is man the better? For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?”

“You are a child seeking to be a man. When you are a man, you will seek in vain for the child you were.”

“I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.”

“But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.”