But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

In his novels from beginning to end, Dickens is making the same point always: that to the English governing classes the people they govern are not real.

Written By Edmund Wilson

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