"May not the complaint, that common people..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“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 to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.”

“It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”

“While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.”

“I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.”

“The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity”

“Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.”

“If there is hope, it lies in the proles.”

“No gentleman ever has any money.”

“History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.”