Excited to see the first stills from A (Tory) Christmas Carol!

“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.”

‘Business!’ cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. ‘Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!’

“His wealth is of no use to him. He don’t do any good with it. . . . I am sorry for him; I couldn’t be angry with him if I tried. Who suffers by his ill whims! Himself, always.”

“If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

“there were more children there, than Scrooge in his agitated state of mind could count; and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves like one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.”

“No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused!”