Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material." [ Victor Hugo ]

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind. [ Colton ]

Passion may not unfitly be termed the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. [ William Penn ]

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchre of all his other passions, as they successively decay. But unlike other tombs, it is enlarged by repletion and strengthened by age. [ Colton ]

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary. [ Colton ]