Darkness was cheap, and Scrooge liked it. - Charles Dickens

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

"It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too."
Are you, Joe?"
Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!"

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.