Great Expectations

"It was the night of the day when I was made a gentleman."

"I had aspired to greatness, but had only come to shame."

"I see the shadow of another parting."

"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."

"I have been growing up in the knowledge of her suffering."

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching."

"The man who says he knows nothing but the law is the man who knows nothing."

"Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence."

"I have been torn two ways all my life."

"It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home."

"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart."

"I am afraid I am a coarse common boy again."

"I must have been a singular little creature to judge myself so harshly."

"I have had the experience of wearing this ring."

"The course of true love never runs smooth."

"I have nothing more to tell you about my expectations."

"There are certain seasons when you are afraid of yourself."

"I am not what I once was, and I cannot be reconciled to myself as I am."

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching."

"I have believed, and I do still believe, that there is a better time coming."

"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart."

"I am afraid I am a coarse common boy."

"There have been sorrow enough in my life to make me phantasmagoric."

"It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home."

"Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence."

"I think I have never been happier than I am now."

"I have come to value her more now that she is lost to me than I ever did when I possessed her."

"I have never been so miserable, yet never so alive as I am now."

"It is too late to change what has been done, but perhaps not too late to do better in the future."

"I have learned that the gentlemen of the world are not always the most noble of men."