"In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter."
"If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked."
"What would it signify to me, being coarse and common, if nobody had told me so!"
"Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together."
"I was very glad afterwards to have had the interview, for in her face and in her voice, and in her touch, she gave me the assurance that suffering had been stonger than Miss Havisham's teaching, and had given her a hear to understand what my heart used to be."
