Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

- William Makepeace Thackeray

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

- William Makepeace Thackeray

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

- William Makepeace Thackeray

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

- William Makepeace Thackeray

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

- William Makepeace Thackeray

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

- William Makepeace Thackeray

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

- William Makepeace Thackeray

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

- William Makepeace Thackeray

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

- William Makepeace Thackeray