"Some people are nobody's enemies but their..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.”

“To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.”

“Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.”

“The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction”

“Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.”

“And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.”

“There's only one way kids will wear helmets, and that's if their parents are nagging them to. They will never wear helmets because some state passes a law requiring it.”

“The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.”

“I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me, I must scratch.”