No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.

The world is good natured to people who are good natured.

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

What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.

Revenge may be wicked, but it's natural.

It is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody.

Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.

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

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

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.

Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.

An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.

You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.

Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.

So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.

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