Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.

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

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

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