"A smattering of everything, and a knowledge..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.”

“A good thing can't be cruel.”

“He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave.”

“The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men; not one has been omitted; and each has answered them, according to his ability, by his words and his life.”

“Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.”

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”

“People who have never run even a modest little business assert with great certainty and indignation that heads of multinational corporations are paid much more than they are worth. People who know nothing about medicine and nothing about economics unhesi.”

“Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.”

“If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.”