I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious….

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men..

There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or ….

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him..

You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor ….

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing..

Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world - the figure of the sharp ….

In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and t….

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am….

... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us..

In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly..

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step….

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level….

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself..

A multitude of people and yet solitude..

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away..

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair..

All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with w….

Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and si….

When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready..