Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I ha...
Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.
REMEMBER HOW STRONG WE ARE IN OUR HAPPINESS, AND HOW WEAK HE IS IN IS MISERY!
Out of my thoughts! 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 heart you wounded even then. Yo...
Never, said my aunt, be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.
Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least ple...
Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead, said Scrooge. But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.
It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
I should like to ask you: -- Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee, seem days of very long ago? Responding to his softened manner, Mr. Lorry answered: Twenty...
I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.
Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.
Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.
And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.
This is a world of action and not for moping and droning in.
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousand...
What is he to learn? To imitate? Or to avoid? When your friends the bees worry themselves about their sovereign, and become perfectly distracted touching the slightest monarchical movement, are we men...
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.