He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his own thoughts. He had never known before the strength of the want in his heart...
We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau, tea, coffee, ham and eggs...
...he walked up and down through life.
Remember!--It is Christianity to do good always--even to those who do evil to us. It is Christianity to love our neighbours as ourself, and to do to all men as we would have them do to us. It is Chris...
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.
Herbert Pocket had a frank and easy way about him that was very taking. I had never seen anyone then, and I have never seen anyone since, who more strongly expressed to me, in every look and tone, a n...
Depth answers only to depth .
All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes...
Your tale is of the longest, observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair.It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man, returned Mr. Brownlow, and such tales usually are; if it were o...
We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues — faith and hope.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.
Marley was dead: to begin with.
Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disninterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.