The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. - William Makepeace Thackeray

A person can't help their birth.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

O blessed idleness! Divine lazy nymph! Reach me a novel as I lie in my dressing-gown at three o'clock in the afternoon; compound a sherry-cobbler for me, and bring me a cigar! Dear slatternly, smiling Enchantress! They may assail thee with bad names — swear thy character away, and call thee the Mother of Evil; but, for all that, thou art the best company in the world!