dancing over it — had this happened a week ago, Sir - William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Be gentle with those who are less lucky, if not more deserving. Think, what right have you to be scornful, whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose rank may be an ancestor’s accident, whose prosperity is very likely a satire.

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them—almost all women;—a vast number of clever, hard-headed men.