Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

There is never enough time to do or say all the things that we would wish; The thing is to do as much as you can in the time that you have

Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a...

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge to him. He had been adapted...

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the...

When ladies as young, and good, and beautiful as you are,” replied the girl steadily, “give away your hearts, love will carry you all lengths–even such as you, who have home, friends, other admireres, everything...

There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial...

We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!

What a situation!’ cried Miss Squeers; ‘…What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and desert their chosen intendeds for my sake?’ ‘Because they can’t help...

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

It was no fancy of mine about his hands, I observed; for he frequently ground the palms against each other as if to squeeze them dry and warm, besides often wiping them, in a stealthy...

Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within; . . .

We forge the chains we wear in life

This is a London particular . . . A fog, miss.

If I could work my will, said Scrooge indignantly, “”every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through...

There’s milestones on the Dover Road!

I know quite enough of myself, said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, “”and I don’t improve upon acquaintance . . . “”

With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation out of the other.

There is no limitation, there is positively no limitation’ – opening his eyes wide, and standing on tiptoe – ‘in point of expense! I have orders, sir, to put on my whole establishment of mutes;...

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

Eleven years she had lived in the dark house and its gloomy garden. He was jealous of the very light and air getting to her, and they kept her close. He stopped the wide chimneys,...

Such a number of nights,’ said the girl, with a touch of woman’s tenderness, which communicated something like sweetness of tone, even to her voice; ‘such a number of nights as I’ve been patient with...

I never had one hour’s happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

There can’t be a quarrel without two parties, and I won’t be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you’ve got to expect

Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.

Your tale is of the longest,” observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair.It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man,” returned Mr. Brownlow, “and such tales usually are; if it...

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes, which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from a sense of things about it, and enable it to ramble...

The night was as dark by this time as it would be until morning; and what light we had, seemed to come from the river than the sky, as the oars in their dipping struck...

My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

There is a wisdom of the head, and… a wisdom of the heart.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.

What is meant by a “knowledge of the world” is simply, an acquaintance with the infirmities of men

No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.

But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round — apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be...

The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.

Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit – the habit of nine-tenths of the world – of believing that all was right...

It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally unequal to the consideration of any subject more psychological than gout, rum, and...

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.

I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.

Devolva-se a humanidade à forja que a criou e utilizem-se martelos semelhantes para tornar a esculpi-la e ela se contorcerá na mesma imagem torturada. Cultivem-se de novo as mesmas sementes de desordem e opressão rapaces...

That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never endure the notion of their...

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since....