"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."

Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

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

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!