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.

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

Eugene V. Debs

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

Scott Alexander

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

Plato

The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

Abraham Lincoln

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

George MacDonald

Love is the state in which man sees things most of all as they are not.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.

Charles Caleb Colton

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

George Orwell

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

Robertson Davies

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

Ralph Ellison

Flash'd from his bed the electric tidings came, he is no better, he is much the same.

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