One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

Come in, -- come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!

Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before.

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!