Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.
But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.
There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own, yer know.
In journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up.
I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.