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

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.

I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.

If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?

Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.