Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are
No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused
Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocea...
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 beautiful and wonderful to me than I had ever found i...
He would make a lovely corpse.
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.
But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. Mankind was my business; charity, mer...
"If the law supposes that " said Mr. Bumble "the law is a ass a idiot."
This is a world of action and not for moping and droning in.
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me, the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. But, since my duty has not been incompatible with the admission of...
Because if it is to spite her,' Biddy pursued, 'I should think -but you know best- that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I sh...
They had an ugly look to one as prone to disgust and fear as the changes of a few hours had made me.
You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want of air?
You are fettered, said Scrooge, trembling. Tell me why?I wear the chain I forged in life, replied the Ghost. I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own...
There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you.
So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer...
No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.