I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me..

When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody ….

Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him..

Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remain….

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise..

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire..

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone..

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!.

Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the cus….

Keep up appearances whatever you do..

I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of….

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished..

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness..

every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his h….

Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?" "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to b….

And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was pl….

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat..

If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, ….

Please, sir, I want some more..

. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, a….

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three ….