One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave.

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

Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.

Trifles make the sum of life.

She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself.

The great commander, who seemed by expression of his visage to be always on the look-out for something in the extremest distance, and to have no ocular knowledge of anything within ten miles, made no reply whatever.