"The one great principle of the English..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.”

“A good thing can't be cruel.”

“A tender young cork, however, would have had no more chance against a pair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against a pair of dentists, or a little shuttlecock against two battledores, than I had against Uriah and Mrs. Heep. They did just what they liked with me; and wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell, with a certainty I blush to think of.”

“It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.”

“The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.”

“"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.”

“Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.”

“High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.”

“Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.”