In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article

Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?

There wasn't room to swing a cat there.

It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster.

Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse ? Does that not mean something ? That we felt so much, so deeply, before even speaking?

He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away, by the fervour of this reproach.

I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.