"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

"Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being."

"To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes."

"People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now."

"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."