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...

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

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.

[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

I must do something or I shall wear my heart away…

. . . such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards it the centre of a flushed and boisterous group, just in time to greet the father,...

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is–as the light called human life is–at its coming and its going.

What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light...

I laboured hard at my book, without allowing it to interfere with the punctual discharge of my newspaper duties; and it came out and was very successful. I was not stunned by the praise which...

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Oh! if, when we oppress and grind our fellow-creatures, we bestowed but one thought on the dark evidences of human error, which, like dense and heavy clouds, are rising, slowly it is true, but not...

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Drink with me, my dear, said Mr. Weller. “Put your lips to this here tumbler, and then I can kiss you by deputy.”

In company with several other old ladies of both sexes.

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

It is a sensation not experienced by many mortals, said he, “to be looking into a churchyard on a wild windy night, and to feel that I no more hold a place among the living...

I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday – the longer, the better – from the great...

Think! I’ve got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.

Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.

Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband’s face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the cheek, and sat down to supper, declaring it to be the best face...

‘God bless us, every one!’ said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.

Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them

have you taken leave of your senses

There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.

It can’t be supposed,” said Joe. “Tho’ I’m oncommon fond of reading, too.”Are you, Joe?”Oncommon. Give me,” said Joe, “a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and...

In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.

I’m pretty well. So’s the family, and so’s the boys, except for a sort of rash as is a running through the school, and rather puts ’em off their feed. But it’s a ill wind...

what I want you to be – I don’t mean physically but morally: you are very well physically – is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution....

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported whatthe rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong generalresemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf.Her shawl looked particularly...

Aye, though he loved her from his soul with such a self denying love as woman seldom wins; he spoke from first to last of Martin.

Mr Pinch accordingly, after turning over the leaves of his book with as much care as if they were living and highly cherished creatures, made his own selection, and began to read.

Eccentricities of genius.

Oh Sammy, Sammy, vy worn’t there a alleybi!

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.

Our Mutual Friend.

I only ask for information.

Is the old min agreeable?

He had but one eye and the popular prejudice runs in favour of two.

The question about everything was, would it bring a blush to the cheek of a young person?

Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the...

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visited by cold and sordid people upon...

The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often,...

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.

When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come topeace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and findsuch a blessed sense of rest!

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.