She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.

But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless.

I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.

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

The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance.

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. Withered leaves crackled and snapped beneath his feet, as he crept softly on towards the house. The desolation of a winter night sat brooding on the earth, and in the sky. But, the red light came cheerily towards him from the windows; figures passed and repassed there; and the hum and murmur of voices greeted his ear sweetly.