Sybil (novel)

"I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine."

"Principle is ever my motto, not expediency."

"Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each others habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws: the rich and the poor."

"But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day, and the race a life."

"The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame; a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others."

"The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled."

"We all of us live too much in a circle."

"Power has only one duty—to secure the social welfare of the PEOPLE."

"Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong."

"Little things affect little minds."

"I was told," continued Egremont, "that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension."

"In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbours. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbour."