No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.

Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.

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

Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.

Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word we all clearly understand) going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection of meanness on two.

To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think that when she was with other people she was yet mindful of me, seemed to me the summit of human ambition - I am sure it was the summit of mine.

You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay