An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.

People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are

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 what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.

My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my father ever a father!

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope.

True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.