Our measure of rewards and punishments is most partial and incomplete, absurdly — William Makepeace Thackeray
To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please–respecting them sincerely, — William Makepeace Thackeray
If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is. — William Makepeace Thackeray
There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them. — William Makepeace Thackeray
The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself. — William Makepeace Thackeray
It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills. — William Makepeace Thackeray