Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.