"I am a most uncompromising enemy of the present system of administering the poor-laws."

"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."

"I have a great contempt for all cant and humbug."

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, i…"

"He was a man who, if he had a mind to do a thing, would do it."