Dickens did not merely believe in the brotherhood of man in the weak modern way; he was the brotherhood of man, and knew it was a brotherhood in sin as well as in aspiration.

The art of Dickens was the most exquisite of arts: it was the art of enjoying everybody. Dickens, being a very human writer, had to be a very human being; he h…

There is a heartlessness behind his sentimentally overflowing style.

Dickens was a pure modernist - a leader of the steam-whistle party par excellence - and he had no understanding of any power of antiquity except a sort of jack…

I rarely saw them as individuals. It was always a huge mass...they were naked, packed together, running, being driven with whips.

On atteint aisement une ame vivante a travers les crimes, les vices les plus tristes, mais la vulgarite est infranchissable.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and unde…