Charles Dickens

"Martin took the same course, thinking as he went, that perhaps the free and independent citizens, who in their moral elevation, owned the colonel for their master, might render better homage to the goddess, Liberty, in nightly dreams upon the oven of a Russian Serf."

"Umble we are 'umble we have been 'umble we shall ever be."

"What greater gift than the love of a cat."

"God bless us, every one!"

"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."

"She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast."

"The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself."

"I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer,' said Mrs. Maylie; 'I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one that shall be deep and lasting."

"I only hope, for the sake of the rising male sex generally, that you may be found in as vulnerable and soft-hearted a mood by the first eligible young fellow who appeals to your compassion."

"Mr Pickwick awoke the next morning, there was not a symptom of rheumatism about him; which proves, as Mr Bob Sawyer very justly observed, that there is nothing like hot punch in such cases; and that if ever hot punch did fail to act as a preventive, it was merely because the patient fell in to the vulgar error of not taking enough of it."