My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve.

The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.

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

We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.

Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.