You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.

“I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the…”

“I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time…”

“I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”

“Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when…”