Though you may be, and probably are, the better man--more truthful, more courageous, more generous, more true-hearted, and certain to be the more humble of the two.

I have been brought up where all men are equal, and the things I see here make a new world to me.

Very likely these are right, and all the rest of the world quite wrong.

Englishmen always are certain of that; and as I belong to the privileged classes, my great desire is to believe it.

Only I want to know how the lower orders--the dregs, the scum, the dirt under our feet, the slaves that do all the work and get starved for it--how these trampled wretches regard the question.