"Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself,..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Darnay's way the way of the love of a woman”

“You should keep dogs-fine animals-sagacious.”

“... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.”

“Mine is better than ours.”

“That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.”

“Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”

“My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.”

“Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.”

“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.”