A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.
Charles Dickens
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
Charles Dickens
I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.
Charles Dickens
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Charles Dickens
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Charles Dickens
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
Charles Dickens
With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
Charles Dickens
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, 1849
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
