“Tonight, however, Dickens struck him in a different light. Beneath the author’s sentimental pity for the weak and helpless, he could discern a revolting pleasure in cruelty and suffering, while the grotesque figures of the people in Cruikshank’s illustrations revealed… — Margaret Irwin Copy Share Image
“Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.” — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image