"Hope to the last!" said Newman, clapping him on the back. "Always hope; that's dear boy. Never leave off hoping; it don't answer. Do you mind me, Ni….

Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never seen the righteous forsaken, ….

"And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call her so, and she gone where YOU won't go in a ….

and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like fo….

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..

every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his h….

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..