The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.

Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!