Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

He was a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easy-going, foolish, dear fellow,—a sort of Hercules in strength, and also in weakness.

Since that time, which is far enough away now, I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young under terror.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

("You listen to this," said my sister to me, in a severe parenthesis.)