"Ah, Miss, hope is an excellent thing for such as has the spirits to bear it!" said Mrs Wickam, shaking her head. "My own spirits is not equal to it,….

The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid..

Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious ….

Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques..

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on..

Heaven suits the back to the burden..

Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debto….

It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force li….

I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy..

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick ….

You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David;….

On summer evenings, when every flower, and tree, and bird, might have better addressed my soft young heart, I have in my day been caught in the palm ….

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going..

But tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble’s soul; his heart was waterproof. Like washable beaver hats that improve with rain, his….

Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it!.

There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination ….

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to seawee….

Nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these ….

She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful..

I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going. . . . My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in a 'umble abode..

One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . . you no sooner ….