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

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 …

I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked ... it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; f…

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