Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.
William Makepeace ThackerayAs nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!
William Makepeace ThackerayLife is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
William Makepeace Thackeray