Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
William Makepeace ThackerayAre not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?
William Makepeace ThackerayA gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list.
William Makepeace Thackeray