English "novelist, dramatist".
"He was one of most prolific and popular English novelists, e.g., "A Christmas Carol," 1843 & "Tale of Two Cities," 1859."
It will be very generally found that those who will sneer habitually at human nature . . . are among its worst and least pleasant samples.
"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other."
He'd make a lovely corpse.
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
"I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness."