"The American elite is almost beyond redemption...." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.”

“Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.”

“Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!”

“Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits”

“Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.”

“Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.”

“Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.”

“One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.”

“No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.”