The Narrator

"He had been accustomed to the comfort of his station"

"The very air we breathe is changed by the times"

"There is an evil hour to every human creature"

"Memory and habit are the only proofs of existence"

"Love will make even the lowest man noble"

"It is the nature of men to die"

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"

"The night was dark and stormy"

"A solemn consideration"

"Sydney Carton was not much in the habit of thinking about such matters"

"There seemed to be a golden thread running through"

"The wine shop was much the same"

"Knitted by Madame Defarge"

"The wheel of fortune turns"

"Remember this long enough"

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"

"Recalled to Life"

"The wine shop was a small, dark, and low-pitched chamber"

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"

"There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of England"

"Whenever the weather was fair and settled, one did not desire that it should change"

"The night comes on, the stars begin to shine in the sky of time"

"There is a passion for restlessness in the human heart"

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness"

"There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated"

"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other"

"Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms"

"The night comes on, and the world looks to the stars for light"

"There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair"

"The quiet and kindly place where Lucie will be born"