“If the defendant be a man of straw, who is to pay the costs?”

“[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.”

“I'm a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in all directions by the elephants”

“The happiness he gives is quite as great, as if it cost a fortune.”

“The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.”

“Gentlemen," returned Mr. Micawber, "do with me as you will! I am a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in all directions by the elephants- I beg your pardon; I should have said the elements.”

“Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.”