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

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.

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

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

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

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