You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.

How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

We love being in love, that's the truth on't.

For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.

What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.