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

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

Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.

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.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.