I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt

"What is your best, your very best, ale a glass?" "Two pence halfpenny," says the landlord, "is the price of the Genuine Stunning Ale." "Then," says I, producing the money, "just draw me a glass of the Genuine Stunning, if you please, with a good head on it."

Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.

Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows.

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.

I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.