"I am afraid I am a coarse, common boy."
Education
"It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home."
Family
"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart."
Motivation
"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."
Love
"Great expectations."
Dreams
"She's prettier than a doll."
Beauty
"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching."
Wisdom
"It were better to be eaten up by a lion than to be neglected by a woman."
Love
"I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."
Change
"In a word, I might have been as good as another, if not better."
Life
"I am not what I was."
Change
"She gave me her hand without hesitation."
Hope
"I was three-and-twenty when I saw the first signs of her love."
Love
"My heart was full of pain and sorrow."
"The course of true love never did run smooth."
Love
"My childhood had been my greatest happiness."
Happiness
"That was the end of our first meeting in the ruined garden."
"I was always in the middle of my own affairs, and I did not know where I was."
"What a strange chain of circumstances brought us together!"
"He was a gentleman, and that settled the matter for me."
"Our meetings at intervals ceased to be regular."
Relationships
"As the mists hung heavy on the marshes, so did uncertainty hang over my future."
"I have come to understand that money is not the source of all happiness."
Money
"It takes true courage to admit one's mistakes and move forward."
Courage
"She had not the slightest regard for my feelings."
"It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home."
"I am afraid I am a coward."
Fear
"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart."
Perseverance
"We were equals afterward, as we had been before."
Friendship
"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching."
Wisdom