The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
Reflect upon your present blessings – of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.
Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.
Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.
They are Man’s and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
The sun, – the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man – burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.
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.
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
It is required of every man,” the ghost returned, “that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
You fear the world too much,′ she answered gently. ‘All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?
Yes. He is quite a good fellow – nobody’s enemy but his own.