Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge Quotes

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

To surround anything, however monstrous or ridiculous, with an air of mystery, is to invest it with a secret charm, and power of attraction which to the crowd is irresistible.

I hope I know my own unworthiness, and that I hate and despise myself and all my fellow-creatures as every practicable Christian should.