His wardrobe was extensive-very extensive-not strictly classical perhaps, not quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the ….

The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart,….

He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the less space. He walked as softly as the Ghost….

I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her..

When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find such….

As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my fir….

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it,….

Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile..

"Walter," she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, "like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for them, and believe that the….

There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes ev….

Heaped on the floor were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-pudding….

Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything….

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail tha….

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the underta….

"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic.".

I was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry--I cannot hit upon the right name for the smart--God knows what its name was--that tears s….

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together..

The more especially, as in my juvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I was quite the patron of my t….

His gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of us would, if we could; ….

And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment..