Vanity is often the unseen spur.

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?

An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

True love is better than glory.