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….

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips..

A very little key will open a very heavy door..

I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the eveni….

Trifles make the sum of life..

"Ghost of the Future," he exclaimed, "I fear you more than any spectre I have seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to liv….

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes..

Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide..

Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an….

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare ….

If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot..

Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; b….

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation..

Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities..

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 inj….

The law is an ass, an idiot..

The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the establish….

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