Great Expectations

"I have a terrible faculty of forgetting faces."

"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."

"The unworthiest of all my relations was my sister."

"Anything you want, you must want with passion."

"I feel grateful to the full extent of my nature."

"My heart is not my own, and I have no right to dispose of it."

"There is nothing like the first consciousness of love and beauty."

"In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right."

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching."

"I have been bent and broken, but I hope into a better shape."

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

"We are all fools in love."

"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."

"Adversity reveals character in ways prosperity never can."

"True wealth lies in honest relationships and clear conscience."

"I came to understand that shame is often misplaced."

"The desire for self-improvement is noble, but not at any cost."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."

"I learned to value substance over appearance."

"Dreams of greatness had corrupted my simple beginnings."

"Forgiveness begins with understanding one's own failings."

"The heart knows truths the mind refuses to accept."

"I had become a stranger to those who loved me most."

"A gentleman is made by his actions, not his birth."

"The truth about my benefactor shattered all my illusions."

"Expectation is often the enemy of contentment."

"Herbert's friendship was my truest blessing."

"I sought to be someone I was not meant to be."