But you can understand a poor fellow like me, who has been dragged through the slums and sewers of this wicked world for fifteen years and more, being very well content with any sort of good which I can light on, and not particular as to either quantity or quality." "Perhaps yours is the healthier state of mind; if you can only find the said good.

The vulturine nose, which smells nothing but corruption, is no credit to its possessor.

And it would be pleasant, at least, to find good in every man." "One can't do that in one's study.

Mixing with them is the only plan.
No doubt they're inconsistent enough.

The more you see of them, the less you trust them; and yet the more you see of them, the more you like them.