"An observer of men who finds himself..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.”

“What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!”

“I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.”

“The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.”

“Why assume that to look is to see?”

“If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher.”

“It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?”

“Use the Light that dwells within you to regain your natural clarity of sight.”

“In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.”