“For again Scrooge saw himself. He was older now, a man in the prime of life. His face had not the harsh and rigid lines of later years, but it had begun to wear the signs of care and avarice. There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye, which showed the passion that had taken root, and where the shadow of the growing tree would fall.”Charles Dickens
“Whatsoever the failings on his part, remember, reader, he was that good in his heart.”Charles Dickens
“Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.”Charles Dickens
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”Charles Dickens
“I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys: mealy boys and beef-faced boys.”Charles Dickens
“Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.”Charles Dickens
“Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.”Charles Dickens
“It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold.”Charles Dickens
“Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.”Charles Dickens
“Let us leave our old friend in one of those moments of unmixed happiness which, if we seek them, there are ever some, to cheer our transitory existence here. There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”Charles Dickens
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.”Charles Dickens
