Grief never mended no broken bones, and as good people’s wery scarce, what I says is, make the most on ’em. - Charles Dickens

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life.

it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.