Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

All partings foreshadow the great final one.

I wish I were the Commander in Chief in India... I should do my utmost to exterminate the Race upon whom the stain of the late cruelties rested.

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.

"And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call her so, and she gone where YOU won't go in a hurry - because you had not done wrong enough to her and hers, you must begin to train her, must you? begin to break her, like a poor caged bird, and wear her deluded life away, in teaching her to sing YOUR notes?"

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.