An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.

Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time, on very slight and sparing food.

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

The rain and hail pattered against the glass; the chimneys quaked and rocked; the crazy casement rattled with the wind, as though an impatient hand inside were striving to burst it open. But no hand was there, and it opened no more.

"O' course I came to look arter you, my darlin'," replied Mr. Weller; for once permitting his passion to get the better of his veracity.

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.