Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. — Nicholas Nickleby

"It will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature [...] are among its worst and least pleasant samples."

"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. Kate will be a beautiful woman, and I so proud to hear them say so, and mother so happy to be with us once again, and all these sad times forgotten."

"He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two."

"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and youve conquered human nature."

"Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased."

"Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues — faith and hope."