We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not good to do religiously.
He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.
To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.
Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I watched him as he took and took: none of it I could claim as mine.
Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
How meanly and grossly do we deal with nature!
I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.
The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
Say and do what you mean, but never say and do it meanly.
Remember to say what you mean, but don't say it meanly.
