Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.

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.

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

Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

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

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