I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all..

Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir..

Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait..

The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one..

I only ask for information..

A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence..

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; th….

Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. ….

Nothing of what is nobly done is ever lost..

I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and whether our butcher ….

I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy.

Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea..

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself..

It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of o….

Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?.

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

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence..

Novelties please less than they impress..

In truth, no men on earth can cheer like Englishmen, who do so rally one another's blood and spirit when they cheer in earnest, that the stir is like….

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew..

Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a p….