She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenances of friends

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.