For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.

And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

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

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.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.