“He who loves the law dies either mad or poor.”

“In war, the poor are killed. In peace, the poor dies.”

“I say if you love something, set it in a small cage and pester and smother it with love until it either loves you back or dies.”

“All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.”

“The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble.”

“Driven raving mad by love—and he a man who had been always esteemed for his great prudence.”

“Who, being loved, is poor?”

“I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.”

“Better a thrifty son-in-law and poor, than a glutton who is rich.”

“After all, it was never Darnay he quoted, only Sydney, drunk and wrecked and dissipated. Sydney, who died for love.”