Charles Dickens — "The never-failing beauty of the spring!"

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape."

"The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself."

"I think the English people are a very conservative people."

"It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour."

"I have not the least belief in the present system of education for the poor, as it is conducted in England."