There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.'

If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. So don't tell no more on 'em, Pip, and live well and die happy.

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. The city lay behind him, lighted here and there, and starry worlds were hidden by the masonry of spire and roof that hardly made out any shapes against the sky. Dark and lonely distance lay around him everywhere, and the clocks were faintly striking two.

"Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting."

Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows.

Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.