Book: Bleak house

He who is unreliable in one thing is unreliable in everything.

... Death equates the powerful of this world and the small ones...

... Suspicions can go very far - just give them free rein.

So that's what happens in life. Worldly goods are not equally distributed, but there is no need to grumble.

Died, Your Majesty. Died, milords and gentlemen. Died, you, reverends and dissimulate ministers of all cults. Died, you people; but heaven has given you compassion. And so they die around us every day.

How strange it is that in the heart of the civilized world it is more difficult to shelter a person than a stray dog.

Every little thing can seem dangerous when viewed from this point of view.

When events of national importance occur, the patriotic cause can also be served by dancing ...

Who can read in hearts? ..

… Where there is desire, there will be success; this applies to everything in the world.

How beautiful, how wonderful it seemed to me now every breath of wind, every flower, leaf and bylinka, every floating cloud, all smells, and everything in general in nature! That was my first reward for the disease. How little I lost if the whole wide world gave me so much joy!

When you always wait for something that never comes, it is so exhausting ...

... The most reasonable thing is not to do anything in the dark, not to participate in anything mysterious and mysterious, not to put your feet where you do not see the earth.

... In warmth you value eloquence better.