More from William Makepeace Thackeray

  1. The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is for ever in a passion.
  2. I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
  3. There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.
  4. Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
  5. 'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
  6. To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go …
  7. 'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry--every man of every nation has done that--'tis the living up to it that is diff…
  8. Bravery never goes out of fashion.

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