"The poor are always with us, but they are not always with us in the same numbers."

"I know enough of the world now, to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything."

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."

"The universe makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid."

"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour."