The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.