A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self..

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood..

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on ….

And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since g….

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... ….

To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeabl….

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it..

The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in du….

From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone o….

I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in nature, more be….

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs..

The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cow….

The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in full sp….

We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it cou….

I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious….

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men..

There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or ….

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him..

You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor ….

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing..

Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world - the figure of the sharp ….