...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.

Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them.

Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.

I'll suffer no daughter of mine to play the fool with her heart, indeed! She shall marry for the purpose for which matrimony was ordained amongst people of birth--that is, for the aggrandisement of her family, the extending of their political influence--for becoming, in short, the depository of their mutual interest. These are the only purposes for which persons of rank ever think of marriage.

There's no doctor like meat and drink.

Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good!