You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay - Charles Dickens

I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.

External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.