The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the pride of this house is humbled.

My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.

... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.