What an important thing social position is! What power for good it gives one!" "Provided," put in her companion, "that one belongs to nature's aristocracy." "Well--yes--I suppose one must have the presumption to lay claim to that," returned May, with a little laugh.
"Say, rather, the honesty, the simple courage.

Self-depreciation," added Dyce, "I have always regarded as a proof of littleness.

People really called to do something never lose confidence in themselves, and have no false modesty about expressing it." "I'm sure that's very true.

I heard once that someone at Northampton had called me conceited, and you can't think what a shock it gave me.

I sat down, there and then, and asked myself whether I really was conceited, and my conscience assured me I was nothing of the kind.