Charles Dickens — "The town was a place of great resort, and much business was done there."

"I am always deeply interested in the subject of public executions, and think that the great number of persons whom they attract, derive a salutary horror and warning from the spectacle."

"Every man has some good in him, and every man has some bad in him."

"I am a gentleman. I have been a gentleman all my life."

"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…"

"It is a most extraordinary, and at the same time a most natural, thing, that a man should be able to look back upon his life and see it as a whole."