“We’ll start to forget a place once we left it.”
“A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”
“It is extraordinary to me that you people cannot take care of yourselves and your children. One or the other of you is forever in the way.”
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
“Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.”
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”
“Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.”
“Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.”
“Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.”
“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.”
“Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.”
“There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.”
“He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.”
“Remember how strong we are in our happiness, and how weak he is in is misery!”
“Is it possible! Yes. And a beautiful world we live in, when it IS possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done”
“A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.”
“Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me.”
“But we common dogs are proud too, sometimes. They plunder us, outrage us, beat us, kill us; but we have a little pride left, sometimes”
“That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.”
“When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.”
“Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.”
“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. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.”
“I am sure that he is capable of good things, gentle things, even magnanimous things.”
“There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you.”
“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.”
“Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.”
“Into his handsome face, the bitter waters of captivity had worn; but, he covered up their tracks with a determination so strong, that he held the mastery of them even in his sleep.”
“Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.”
“Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.”
“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.“
“There is a great crowd coming one day into our lives, if that be so.”
