Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend Quotes

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

...and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!

Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, John. I have better than got it, John.

Are you thankful for not being young?''Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...