That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.

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.

We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.

If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?

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

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh, ladies! how many of you have surreptitious milliners' bills? How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling?--trembling, and coaxing with smiles the husband by your side, who does not know the new velvet gown from the old one, or the new bracelet from last year's, or has any notion that the ragged-looking yellow lace scarf cost forty guineas and that Madame Bobinot is writing dunning letters every week for the money!