The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. Bleak House

The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief. Animal Farm

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Don Quixote

I often ardently perceived a longing for relief, the desire for a proper confession, but I also felt in advance that I would be unable to tell and explain things correctly to either my father or mother. I knew that they would receive my words amicably, they would carefully spare my feelings, in fact, pity me, but they wouldn’t fully understand me, and the whole thing would be looked on as a sort of minor infraction, whereas it was actually my fate. Demian