but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?

There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.

Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute.

I know it’s not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!" "My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow…" "Is that so? Well, miss, you are glowing like a pig!