The law is an ass, an idiot.

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

Mrs. Lammle's manner changed under the poor silly girl's embraces, and she turned extremely pale: directing one appealing look, first to Mrs. Boffin, and then to Mr. Boffin. Both understood her instantly, with a more delicate subtlety than much better educated people, whose perception came less directly from the heart, could have brought to bear upon the case.

Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.