A Tale of Two Cities

"Beauty often lies hidden beneath the surface of things, waiting to be discovered"

"I wish to do some useful service to humanity before my life is ended"

"The measure of true nobility is not in the rank one is born to, but in the virtues one possesses"

"Time is the great healer of all wounds and sorrows"

"Better to live one day as a free man than a lifetime of slavery"

"Freedom and its antecedents may struggle with force, but the struggle is eternal"

"The heart of another being is an open book to me"

"Such are the small events that lead to great consequences"

"The old echoes from old years of my life, have awakened within me a new consciousness"

"In the shadow of her love, I have found a refuge from my despair"

"I feel the stirrings of a new man within my breast"

"The business of the law is the ruin of families and fortunes"

"I see the life I might have had, and it gives me an unspeakable joy"

"The great grindstone of fate and time has worn many like me to powder"

"Compassion is the greatest virtue a human being can possess"

"Whatever our respective circumstances in life, we are all subject to the same weakness and infirmity of spirit"

"The strong passion which ruled your life is still as inexplicable to me as it ever was"

"I feel as though my whole existence has been a preparation for a change in me"

"There is something in me that will die hard, but it is rising from my ashes"

"Sorrow was the natural inheritance of all who lived and loved"

"You have been the last dream of my soul"

"Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey"

"From my childhood I have been wont to think of myself as a creature of chance and misfortune"

"The lives we save from ruin are not limited to the saving of the body from the scaffold"

"I hope that the day may never come when you will cease to be as kind to me as you have ever been"

"A man may not be so ready to die, for love of another person, as to die for his principles"

"The night was so very still and peaceful"

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known"

"If you remember the words that passed between us, long ago, you will give me that tolerence and consideration"

"There is a passion and power in what you express, that is new to me"