When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

A tender young cork, however, would have had no more chance against a pair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against a pair of dentists, or a little shuttlecock against two battledores, than I had against Uriah and Mrs. Heep. They did just what they liked with me; and wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell, with a certainty I blush to think of.

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

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

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me.

Joe gave me some more gravy.