It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold.

When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows.

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

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged.

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