Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.
William Makepeace ThackerayWe pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.
William Makepeace ThackerayVanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
William Makepeace ThackerayA good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.
William Makepeace Thackeray