Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

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, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

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

It is a far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.

In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

Once upon a time--of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve--old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house.

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

'A merry Christmas, uncle God save you' cried a cheerful voice. 'Bah' said Scrooge. 'Humbug'

With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

The law is sic a ass - a idiot.

It is a far, far better thing that I do now, then I have ever done before... it is a far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known before.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

There is always something for which to be thankful.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

There is a wisdom of the head, and ... a wisdom of the heart.