Great Expectations

"In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice."

"Hope as I might, I could not turn the mind's eye inward without acknowledging the change."

"I had been ignorantly blundering on all this time."

"The truth is, I am falling into the very commonest mistakes."

"I became conscious of a sort of shame in my own society."

"My heart was sorely grieved when I reflected on the manner in which I had left the village."

"There can be no greater power than the power of change."

"My soul was from my body then."

"I was in danger of losing the faculty of appreciation."

"I have reason to believe I am a favorite with the women."

"That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in my life."

"Mankind in the aggregate was the object of my misanthropy."

"I had been running a bad race, and had lost."

"It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, were she alive, to be so cruel in making such difference."

"I felt ashamed of my home."

"The occasion was piled before us in a chariot of soft pillows."

"My father's grave-stone was not far off, and we put flowers on it once a year."

"I wish you could see how painful it is to me to be unworthy of anybody."

"I had never parted from her without the smallest pang of reproach."

"The universal struggle appears to be for existence, and afterwards the chief thing is life."

"Whatever I have done has been done because I wished to do it."

"I have a feeling of having been in this strange place before."

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching."

"You can't wean yourself off a bad thing by pretending it doesn't exist."

"It is a wonderful thing to have a great expectation and always to be looking forward to it."

"I have never been so near to being made happy, but that I have never been happy."

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

"We are not naturally in a state of excitement; that, with most of us, is rather an exception than the rule."

"I am afraid I am a coward."

"To understand oneself is the beginning of wisdom."