An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.
Charles DickensGood never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.
Charles DickensThus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.
Charles Dickens