"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."

"But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short."

"Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion."

"I can always live by my pen."

"For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime."

"If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world."