If _I_ had had capital, it would never have yielded me more than three or four per cent.

I was doomed to work for other people who were growing rich.

It doesn't matter much now, except that so many years of life have been lost.' 'Had your brother any children ?' 'No children.

All the same, it astonished me when I heard his will; I had expected nothing.

In one day--in one hour--I passed from slavery to freedom, from poverty to more than comfort.