responsibility

• 'mankind was my business. the common welfare was my business: charity, mercy, forbearance and benevolence, were all my business'
• 'he has the power to render us happy or unhappy... the happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune'
• ''God bless us, everyone!' said tiny tim, the last of all'
• 'spirit of tiny tim ... thy childish essence was from God'
• '' a merrier christmas bob, my good fellow, than i have given you in many a year. I'll raise your salary and endeavor to assist your struggling family''
• 'hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained and solitary as an oyster' stave 1