"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other"
"A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match"
"It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained"
"May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?"
"Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door"
"The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists"
"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast"
"The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons"
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
