There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food….

I wear the chains I forged in life..

We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, an….

You are always training yourself to be, mind and body, as clear as crystal, and you always are, and never change; whereas I am a muddy, solitary, mop….

But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget..

She forgot to be shy at the moment, in honestly warning him away from the sunken wreck he had a dream of raising; and looked at him with eyes which a….

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true..

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else..

Never, never, before Heaven, have I thought of you but as the single, bright, pure, blessed recollection of my boyhood and my youth. Never have I fro….

The young woman who brought me acquainted with Captain Murderer had a fiendish enjoyment of my terrors, and used to begin, I remember - as a sort of ….

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china..

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman..

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure..

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd..

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy..

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present..

The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to a….

Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work..

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth..

You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am ….

"Ah, Miss, hope is an excellent thing for such as has the spirits to bear it!" said Mrs Wickam, shaking her head. "My own spirits is not equal to it,….