I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.

What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times.

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

Stella says the name for the house where she and Ms. Havisham live is Stasis, Greek, or Latin, or Hebrew, or all three to dub the domicile Enough House. In a healthy soul, this might mean contentment. Or, in seeing what we have as Enough, this can mean we are not open to vulnerability, generosity, or dependence on those who might threaten our Stasis.

I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!

The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them.