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

You have been so careful of me that I never had a child's heart. You have trained me so well that I never dreamed a child's dream. You have dealt so wisely with me, Father ,from my cradle to this hour, that I never had a child's belief or a child's fear. Mr. Gradgrind was quite moved by his success, and by this testimony to it. " My dear Louisa," said he, you abundantly repay my care. Kiss me, my dear girl.

Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him. ~ Stephen speaking of Rachael

... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.