We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.

If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of the true metal and bear the stamp of heaven.

Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.

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

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.