"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene l…"

"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast."

"The sun himself has never looked upon anything so ridiculous as this."

"I have a profound distrust of all forms of religious enthusiasm."

"The English are, so far as I know, the hardest worked people on whom the sun shines. Be content if in their wretched intervals of leisure they read for amusement and do no worse."