Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pa….

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself..

She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful ….

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate..

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort..

"Why, what I may think after dinner," returns Mr. Jobling, "is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before dinner is another thing.".

You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have m….

The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the heavens, and the fire-flie….

Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not a….

"Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to be, if he was not so like his mother, too.".

He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the head, and questioned beggars,….

But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing it….

There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to pu….

"The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weane….

Newman cast a despairing glance at his small store of fuel, but, not having the courage to say no-a word which in all his life he never had said at t….

Houses were knocked down; streets broken through and stopped; deep pits and trenches dug in the ground; enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; b….

I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one another; to see how they….

Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever given alms appears, to add his mite….

Joe gave me some more gravy..

Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll ….

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss..