“You who have any who love you, cling to them, and thank God.”

— William Makepeace Thackeray, Lovel the Widower (1860), Ch. 6

About William Makepeace Thackeray

1811 – 1863

English novelist, author of "Vanity Fair".

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

“Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.”

“Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.”

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”

“Gratitude and Vanity are the nurses that rock the cradle of Love.”

“Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Give all to love; obey thy heart.”

“What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.”