William Makepeace Thackeray Mind Quotations

Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds.

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.