Tawa ceria adalah laksana cahaya matahari di dalam rumah. - William Makepeace Thackeray

I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do — a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.

Heaven help us! The girls have only to turn the tables,and say of one of their own sex,'She is as vain as a man,' and they will have perfect reason. The bearded creatures are quite as eager for praise, quite as finikin over their toilets, quite as proud of their personal advantages, quite as conscious of their powers of fascinations, as any coquette in the world.

... nobody does anything for nothing. ... it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody.