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

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

But it's a changeable world! When we consider how great our sorrow seem, and how small they are; how we think we shall die of grief, and how quickly we forget, I think we ought to be ashamed of ourselves and our fickle-heartedness. For, after all, what business has Time to bring us consolation?

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for any one who dies.