"It is a sensation not experienced by many mortals," said he, "to be looking into a churchyard on a wild windy night, and to feel that I no more hold….

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions..

And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart’s content.….

The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them.

Wen you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while goin' through so muc….

I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt.

I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start from my slee….

He would make a lovely corpse..

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up..

If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak, and it will give me more courag….

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one..

The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east..

One thing about this face was very strange and startling. You could not look upon it in its most cheerful mood without feeling that it had some extra….

Now, Bella suspected by this time that Mr. Rokesmith admired her. Whether the knowledge (for it was rather that than suspicion) caused her to incline….

Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound toge….

It's not put into his head to be buried. It's put into his head to be made useful. You hold your life on the condition that to the last you shall str….

Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it - as at last I did, thank ….

He was drunk upon the average once a day, and penitent upon an equally fair calculation once a month; and when he was penitent, he was invariably in ….

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and disto….

You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under th….

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year..