At Mr Wackford Squeers's Academy, Dotheboys Hall . . . Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with pocket-money, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead."

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

"Known by the sobriquet" of 'The artful Dodger.'"