"Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most de…"

"I'm teaching Dickens now in my English class [at Berkeley], and the narrator is always an even distance away from the…"

"But we should get the whole Victorian perspective wrong, in my opinion at least, if we did not see that Dickens was p…"

"And on that grave where English oak and holly And laurel wreaths entwine, Deem it not all a too presumptuous folly, T…"

"The greatest of superficial novelists... It were, in our opinion, an offense against humanity to place Mr Dickens amo…"

"There is a heartlessness behind his sentimentally overflowing style."

"Dickens did not merely believe in the brotherhood of man in the weak modern way; he was the brotherhood of man, and k…"

"The art of Dickens was the most exquisite of arts: it was the art of enjoying everybody. Dickens, being a very human …"

"No gypsy on earth is a greater vagabond than myself."

"One of Dickens’s most striking peculiarities is that, whenever in his writing he becomes emotional, he ceases instant…"