A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

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

Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

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.