
Nicholas Nickleby: By Charles Dickens : Illustrated

I could take no other part than I have taken; and whatever consequences may accrue to myself from it, I shall never regret doing as I have done—never, if I starve or beg in consequence.
Charles Dickens • Nicholas Nickleby: By Charles Dickens : Illustrated
When I speak of home, I speak of the place where—in default of a better—those I love are gathered together;
Charles Dickens • Nicholas Nickleby: By Charles Dickens : Illustrated
power to serve, is as seldom joined with the will, as the will is with the power, I think.'
Charles Dickens • Nicholas Nickleby: By Charles Dickens : Illustrated
I think of a great many things. Nobody can prevent that.' 'Oh yes, I understand you, Mr. Noggs,' said Mrs. Nickleby. 'Our thoughts are free, of course. Everybody's thoughts are their own, clearly.' 'They wouldn't be, if some people had their way,'
Charles Dickens • Nicholas Nickleby: By Charles Dickens : Illustrated
Gold, for the instant, lost its lustre in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase.
Charles Dickens • Nicholas Nickleby: By Charles Dickens : Illustrated
Now suppose a man can get a fortune in a wife instead of with her—eh?' 'Why, then, he's a lucky fellow,'
Charles Dickens • Nicholas Nickleby: By Charles Dickens : Illustrated
The father fell into his chair pale and trembling; Arthur Gride plucked and fumbled at his hat, and durst not raise his eyes from the floor; even Ralph crouched for the moment like a beaten hound, cowed by the presence of one young innocent girl!
Charles Dickens • Nicholas Nickleby: By Charles Dickens : Illustrated
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues—faith and hope.
Charles Dickens • Nicholas Nickleby: By Charles Dickens : Illustrated
alas! their high and palmy days had taken boots to themselves, and were already walking off.