Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.

When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

I went away, dear Agnes, loving you. I stayed away, loving you. I returned home, loving you!

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.