The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning - yet before us.

A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!

All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.

It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella.

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