Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you.

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

Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.

Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.

And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable.