The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.

His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact, every word that he had to speak or listen to, an agony. Even in sleep he could not altogether escape form her image.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.