"Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it...." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“Joe gave me some more gravy.”

“Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.”

“In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article”

“No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.”

“To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.”

“Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.”

“Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.”

“The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.”

“So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the struggle. Union means so many millions a year lost to the South; secession means the loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this as of many many other evils ... the quarrel between North and South is, as it stands, solely a fiscal quarrel.”