Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.

I must do something or I shall wear my heart away.

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a small, thin, flat voice, which I remembered to have considered, when I first knew her, the very table-beer of acoustics) the favourite ballads of "The Dashing White Sergeant", and "Little Tafflin".

When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.