Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not..

The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerni….

For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly f….

Poverty and oysters always seem to go together..

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so..

External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no….

We forge the chains we wear in life..

... when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the ….

Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to..

A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with….

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay..

"We will wait," answered little Alice, taking Nettie's hand in hers, and looking up to the sky, "we will wait - ever constant and true - till the tim….

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me..

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be..

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!.

... Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of His, they must b….

The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain..

He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of o….

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations..

It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and cho….

Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand….