“Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.”

“Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.”

“And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.”

“silence is not weakness and decency is not pride”

“The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.”

“Pride and Vanity have built more Hospitals than all the Virtues together.”

“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.”

“I have not much pride under such circumstances: I would always rather be happy than dignified.”

“What demon is our god? What name subsumes
That act external to our sleeping selves?
Not pleasure — it is much too broad and narrow —,
Not sex, not for the moment love, but pride,
And not in prowess, but pride undefined,
Autonomous in its unthought demands,
A bit of vanity, but mostly pride.”

“Opinions, yes; convictions, no. That is the point of departure for an intellectual pride.”