Mr Polly was someone I discovered in my early teens and that novel went so deep!

'If the world does not please you, you can change it. Determine to alter it at any price, and you can change it altogether. You may change it to something sinister and angry, to something appalling, but it may be you will change it to something brighter, something more agreeable, and at the worst something much more interesting.'

The world did not please me, so I changed it! :o)