Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

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

" ... It is not my desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may be a hypocrite," said Mr. Pecksniff, cuttingly, "but I am not a brute."

Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!