Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society. - William Makepeace Thackeray

Women only know how to wound so. There is a poison on the tips of their little shafts, which stings a thousand times more than a man's blunter weapon.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

Try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and life that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things: narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.