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Indeed, as he eagerly sparkled at them from the cellarage before mentioned, he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts, and prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of child-hood at one discharge. He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away.

THOMAS GRADGRIND, sir. A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind, sir-peremptorily Thomas - Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. You might hope to get some other nonsensical belief into the head of George Gradgrind, or Augustus Gradgrind, or John Gradgrind, or Joseph Gradgrind (all supposititious, non-existent persons), but into the head of Thomas Gradgrind - no, sir !

My stool was such a tower of observation, that as I watched him reading on again, after this rapturous exclamation, and following up the lines with his forefinger, I observed that his nostrils, which were thin and pointed, with sharp dints in them, had a singular and most uncomfortable way of expanding and contracting themselves - that they seemed to twinkle instead of his eyes, which hardly ever twinkled at all.

Quintilian legger avgjørende vekt på lærernes karakter og vandel. De må verken selv ha laster eller tåle dem hos andre. De må ha faderlig omsorg for elevene. Strengheten skal ikke være tverr, for det skaper hat, og omgjengeligheten ikke for slapp, for det vekker forarkt. Lærere skal gjerne svare på spørsmål, og selv uteske dem som ikke spør. Han skal verken være påholden eller ødsel med ros, for det første kan frata elevene arbeidslysten, det andre kan gjøre dem innbilske. 'Læreren skal ikke tale slik at at han tilpasser seg elevenes standard, men eleven slik at han tilpasser seg lærerens' (Q II.2.13).

'Copperfield,' said Mr. Micawber, 'farewell! Every happiness and prosperity! If, in the progress of revolving years, I could persuade myself that my blighted destiny had been a warning to you, I should feel that I had not occupied another man's place in existence altogether in vain. In case of anything turning up (of which I am rather confident), I shall be extremely happy if it should be in my power to improve your prospects.'

'My dear young friend,' said Mr. Micawber, 'I am older than you; a man of some experience in life, and - and of some experience, in short, in difficulties, generally speaking. At present, and until something turns up (which I am, I may say, hourly expecting), I have nothing to bestow but advice. Still my advice is so far worth taking, that - in short, that I have never taken it myself, and am the' - here Mr. Micawber, who had been beaming and smiling, all over his head and face, up to the present moment, checked himself and frowned - 'the miserable wretch you behold.'

'My dear Micawber!' urged his wife.

'I say,' returned Mr. Micawber, quite forgetting himself, and smiling again, 'the miserable wretch you behold. My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!'

Når du slår ned oliven, skal du ikkje plukka greinene reine etterpå. La innflyttaren, den farlause og enkja får det som er att. Når du haustar vinmarka di, skal du ikkje sanka dei druene som heng att. La innflyttaren, den farlause og enkja få dei. Kom i hug at du sjølv var slave i Egypt.

(5 Mos 24,20-21)

Du skal ikkje vrengja retten for innflyttarar og farlause og ikkje ta kleda til ei enkje i pant. Kom i hug at du sjølv var slave i Egypt, [...].

(5 Mos 5,17-18)

Det finnes mer poesi enn rettferdighet i verden.

'He is the parent of my children! He is the father of my twins! He is the husband of my affections.' cried Mrs Micawber, struggling; 'and I ne - ver - will - desert Mr Micawber!'

He [i.e. Mr Micawber] solemnly conjured me, I remember, to take warning by his fate; and to observe that if a man had twenty pounds a-year for his income, and spent nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and six-pence, he would be happy, but that if he spent twenty pounds one he would be miserable. After which he borrowed a shilling of me for porter, gave me a written order on Mrs Micawber for the amount, and put away his pocket-handkerchief, and cheered up.

Mr Micawber had a few books on a little chiffonier, which he called the library; [...].

Slik ville han visa deg at mennesket ikkje lever berre av brød; [...].
(5 Mos 8,3)