What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!

Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.

From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Darnay's way the way of the love of a woman

Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up...

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.