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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."

"The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class."

"Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes."

"But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish."

"I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class."

"Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture."

"You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud."
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