“Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.”
“But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!”
“Oh, God! that bread should be so dear! And flesh and blood so cheap!”
“My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.”
“A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.”
“But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?”