Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!

By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!

There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.

Marley was dead: to begin with.