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

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.

Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.

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.

The world is good natured to people who are good natured.