William Makepeace Thackeray

"'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's difficult. "

"A good laugh is sunshine in a house. "

"Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb. "

"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. "

"I would rather make my name than inherit it. "

"Life is the soul's nursery--Its training place for the destinies of eternity. "

"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. "

"There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. "

"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 -- who can say this is not greatness "

"To love and win is the best thing, to love and lose, the next best. "

"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. "

"When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole. "