Who said “I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.”?

“One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.”

“We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.”

“No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.”

“Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.”

“Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.”

“Poetry’s a mere drug, Sir.”

“Those who know the least obey the best.”

“Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.”

“There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.”

“Money is the sinews of love, as of war.”

“We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.”