Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

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.

When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.

Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.