Society and the World

Minerva House … where some twenty girls … acquired a smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.

Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

‘It’s always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.’ ‘But suppose there are two mobs?’ suggested Mr Snodgrass. ‘Shout with the largest,’ replied Mr Pickwick.

‘It’s always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.’ ‘But suppose there are two mobs?’ suggested Mr Snodgrass. ‘Shout with the largest,’ replied Mr Pickwick.

Kent, sir—everybody knows Kent—apples, cherries, hops, and women.

Affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

Here’s the rule for bargains: ‘Do other men, for they would do you.’

Here’s the rule for bargains: ‘Do other men, for they would do you.’

There’s milestones on the Dover Road!

Now, what I want is, Facts … Facts alone are wanted in life.

Now, what I want is, Facts … Facts alone are wanted in life.

Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving— HOW NOT TO DO IT.

Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving— HOW NOT TO DO IT.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

It was as true … as taxes is. And nothing’s truer than them.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.

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

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

Jarndyce and Jarndyce still drags its dreary length before the Court, perennially hopeless.

It is contrary to reason to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.

For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

A duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.