Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!

A good thing can't be cruel.

They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.