Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.

The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.

Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

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.

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any.If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned - would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.

And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.