The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.

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.

A person can't help their birth.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

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

Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.