"I know enough of the world now, to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything."

"I have no patience with people who are always talking about their own grievances."

"He was a man of a ponderous and solemn aspect; a man who might have been a bishop, or a judge, or a prime minister, or anything else that was grave and dignified."

"There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated."

"It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed thems…"