The fact is that between the classes there is a vast gulf that precludes all mutual understanding, and makes simultaneous efforts simply impossible.

Wealth is not a hindrance, but rather a help towards attaining a proper standing in a chosen field of activity. I confess that as far as I am concerned, it has done me some service as it preserved my character from many a crookedness poverty might have exposed it to.

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror, and the nerves of people, who do not know what fear is, shake, just as the window-panes rattle from distant cannonading.

England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.