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

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.