Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
Injustice breeds injustice
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some
The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.
Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,--they do, thank God!
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Dickens, Crime and Victorian London
Museum of London
Thu, 8th March 2012 - Thu, 8th March 2012
Join Judith Flanders, best-selling author of 'The Victorian House and The Invention of Murder', and Dickens and London curator, Alex Werner, to explore crime and punishment in Dickensian London. Chaired by Ben Macintyre, The Times’ writer at large, the discussion will be illustrated with articles from The Times’ rich archive.
