Charles Dickens — "There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated."

"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."

"It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed thems…"

"The American women are certainly not pretty... They are not graceful, they are not elegant, they are not accomplished, they are not intellectual, they are not virtuous, and they are not honest."

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

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