All the truth of my position came flashing on me; and its disappointments, dangers, disgraces, consequences of all kinds, rushed in in such a multitude that I was borne down by them and had to struggle for every breath I drew.

Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together...

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise.

No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a Bill drawn on Nature's Reality, and be presented there for payment, -…

Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.