She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself.

Friendship? Yes Please.

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.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.

Hours are golden links--God's tokens reaching heaven.

If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!