"It was a long and gloomy night..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.”

“There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.”

“You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay”

“The lessons of experience are always learned too late.”

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”

“A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.”

“There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow”

“For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.”

“The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.”