If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.
One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.
When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.
In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article