3 December 2020 William Makepeace Thackeray It is best to love wisely, no doubt but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
3 December 2020 William Makepeace Thackeray It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
3 December 2020 William Makepeace Thackeray To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
3 December 2020 William Makepeace Thackeray It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
3 December 2020 William Makepeace Thackeray If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
3 December 2020 William Makepeace Thackeray Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
3 December 2020 William Makepeace Thackeray What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
3 December 2020 William Makepeace Thackeray Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
