"Veels vithin veels, a prison in a..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“I only ask for information.”

“It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!”

“Then I'm sorry to say, I've eat your pie.”

“In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.”

“I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust,... confess that I am astonished at the power of endurance, to say nothing of the moral insensibility, of my neighbors who confine themselves to shops and offices the whole day for weeks and months, aye, and years almost together. I know not what manner of stuff they are of,--sitting there now at three o'clock in the afternoon, as if it were three o'clock in the morning.”

“I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.”

“If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.”

“Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!”

“Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.”