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

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

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

Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.

A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.

Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.

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?