A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.

The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.

Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.

What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?

The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

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.