"Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people."

"And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day."

"I must do something or I shall wear my heart away..."

"Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug."

"Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you."

"I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free."

"Please, sir, I want some more."

"We forge the chains we wear in life."

"I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished."

"It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present."

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

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