D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.