Charles Dickens

God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour.

In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any.If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned - would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.

We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.

....that the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds.

Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes mingled porter with his table beer to make him strong.

Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

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 a blessed sense of rest!

Love is not a feeling to pass away_x000D_ _x000D_ Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day......._x000D_ _x000D_ Love is not a passion of earthly mould_x000D_ _x000D_ As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

My life is one demd horrid grind.