Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.