A Christmas Carol

scrooge: "Darkness was cheap and scrooge liked it"

scrooge: "Oh but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret and self contained, and as solitary as an oyster."

Marley: "I wear the chains i fored in life" 

Scrooge: "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?"

Scrooge: "the clerks fire looked like one coal"

Scrooge: "A golden idol has replaced me"

"It was a strange figure like a child: yet not so like a child as like a old man.. a birght clear jet of light"

"A solitary school child neglected by his friends, is left there still" 

Scrooge: "Nothing," said Scrooge. "Nothing. There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at the door last night. I should like to have given him somthing: thats all."