'It's not in what you have, but in what you are.'

'Most of us have chains enough of our own forging, without pining after the chains of other people.'

'You don't want precision, you don't want logic; you want confusion.'

'A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.'

'This is the old street,' said Little Dorrit with a little despondent cast of her eyes around her; 'and these are the old houses...'

'The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.'

'She was a little woman, with a face not young, but full of charm.'

'Where is there a love in the world (replied Mr. Pancks) that will take anything but the highest price that can be put upon it?'

'The Circumlocution Office was (as everyone knows without being told) the most important Department under Government.'

'Time shall show it; if I do not, death will.'