He was fond of society, of fashion and even of wealth: but there is no snobbery in admiring these things or any things if we admire them for the right reasons.

He admired them as worldlings cannot admire them: he was, as it were, the child who comes in with the dessert.

He bore the same relation to the snob that the righteous man bears to the Pharisee: something frightfully close and similar and yet an everlasting opposite..