Vanity is often the unseen spur.

We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.

The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.