Great Expectations

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies

'I am to blame for my unhappiness

I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuading arguments of my best friends.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth

Home had never been a very pleasant place to me,

You'll be one-and-twenty before you know where you are, and then perhaps you'll get some further enlightenment. At all events, you'll be nearer getting it, for it must come at last."

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

How can I say, when I never knew?

That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me.

But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been.

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.