Pure literature seemed beyond his scope, yet he was constantly endeavouring to express himself. - George Gissing

It was always in your power to rule me. What pained me worst, and hardened me against you, was that I saw you didn’t care to exert your influence. There was never a time when I could have resisted a word of yours spoken out of your love for me. But even then, I am afraid, you no longer loved me, and now — —

"I suppose," said Piers, "the English are the least Christian of all so-called Christian peoples.”
"Undoubtedly. They simply don't know the meaning of the prime Christian virtue — humility.

To the relatively poor (who are so much worse off than the poor absolutely) education is in most cases a mocking cruelty.