He says-him as was here just now-'When Tom shut up the house, mate, to go to rack, the beds was left, all made, like as if somebody was a-going to sleep in every bed. And if you was to walk through the bedrooms now, you'd see the ragged mouldy bedclothes a heaving and a heaving like seas. And a heaving and a heaving with what?' he says. 'Why, with the rats under 'em.'

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead.

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

Oliver Twist has asked for more!