But high life has no passport except money.

If a man has this, though destitute of character and brains, he is made welcome.

One may come from Botany Bay or St.James; with a ticket-of-leave from a penal colony or St.
Cloud; if he has diamond rings and a coach, all places will be open to him.

The leaders of upper New York were, a few years ago, porters, stable boys, coal-heavers, pickers of rags, scrubbers of floors, and laundry women.

Coarse, rude, uncivil, and immoral many of them still are.