Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.

This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.

Take care of each other.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.