She has worn herself away by constant sharpening. She is all edge.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time.

Trifles make the sum of life.

He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him.~ Stephen speaking of Rachael

Ideas, like ghosts (according to the common notion of ghosts) must be spoken to a little before they will explain themselves;

Darkness was cheap, and Scrooge liked it.