They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind they shot….

Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainmen….

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the….

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped mela….

Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering.

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads..

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions..

Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything ….

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig..

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ….

In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it..

Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows..

There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. The city lay behind him, lighted here and there, a….

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away..

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure..

All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me, - in short, with a parting Shove of their cold shoulders; a….

It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier ….

"Mine ain't a selfish affection, you know," said Mr. Toots, in the confidence engendered by his having been a witness of the Captain's tenderness. "I….

In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley..

My life is one demd horrid grind..