I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. So don't tell no more on 'em, Pip, and live well and die happy.

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life.

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog ! Grrrr!