"But woe to him, who left to..." - Quote by Euripides

“Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.”

“A woman should always stand by a woman.”

“Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.”

“What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.”

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.”

“For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”

“"I take my leave of you, Mr. Creakle, and all of you," said Mr. Mell, glancing round the room, and again patting me gently on the shoulders. "James Steerforth, the best wish I can leave you is that you may come to be ashamed of what you have done today. At present I would prefer to see you anything rather than a friend, to me, or to anyone in whom I feel an interest."”

“I wish I could take a raincheck on June 18.1815”

“Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.”