There are people enough to tread upon me in my lowly state, without my doing outrage to their feelings by possessing learning. Learning ain't for me. A person like myself had better not aspire. If he is to get on in life, he must get on 'umbly, Master Copperfield!

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!

They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

It is one of those problems of human nature, which may be noted down, but not solved; - although Ralph felt no remorse at that moment for his conduct towards the innocent, true-hearted girl; although his libertine clients had done precisely what he had expected, precisely what he most wished, and precisely what would tend most to his advantage, still he hated them for doing it, from the very bottom of his soul.

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.