Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you.

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.

To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.