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

A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.

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

The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.

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

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