Scrooge views time as money, a capitalist view, and the point of the novella is Scrooge changing to believe instead that time is an opportunity for helping others. This is Dickens' own opinion.
It was still very foggy and extremely cold.
Are you the spirit sir, whose coming was foretold to me? Who and what are you?
I am the ghost of Christmas Past. I am here for your reclamation. Take heed!
Home, little Fan?
Home for good and all. Home for ever and ever. Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home's like heaven!
What idol has displaced you?
To you, very little. Another idol has displaced me; and, if it can cheer and comfort you in time to come as I would have tried to do, I have no just cause to grieve.