Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever given alms appears, to add his mite….

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss..

He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fa….

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own.

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands..

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping….

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society..

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in th….

Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog ! Grrrr!.

The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like….

United metropolitan improved hot muffin and crumpet baking and punctual delivery company..

The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey ….

'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the w….

The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me..

Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!.

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape..

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks..

I don't suppose there's a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do. There's youth to the amount of eight hundredpound a-year, at Doth….

The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew….

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population..

I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for us. But it will never be a substitute for the ….