These are some quotes that I admired:
"Then, Slackbridge, who had kept his oratorical arm extended during the going out, as if he were repressing with infinite solicitude and by a wonderful moral power the vehement passions of the multitude, applied himself to raising their spirits. Had not the Roman Brutus, oh my British countrymen, condemned his son to death; and had not the Spartan mothers, oh my soon to be victorious friends, driven their flying children on the points of their enemies swords? Then was is it not the sacred duty of the men of Coketown , with forefathers before them, an admiring world in company with them, and posterity to come after them, to hurl out traitors from the tents they had pitched in a sacred and Godlike cause? The winds of Heaven answered Yes; and bore Yes, east, west, north, and south. And consequently three cheers for the United Aggregate Tribunal"
- Slackbridge, p.142
"Most o' aw, ratin 'em as so much Power, and reg'latin 'em as if they was figures in a soom, or machines: wi'out loves and likeins, wi'out memories and inclinations, wi'out souls to weary and souls to hope - when aw goes quiet, draggin on wi' 'em as if they'd nowt o' th' kind, an when aw goes onquiet, reproachin 'e, for their want o' sitch humanly feelins in their dealins wi' yo - this will never do't, sir, till God's work is onmade"
-Stephen, p.149
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