“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”Charles Dickens
“What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?”Charles Dickens
“Nothing that we do is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.”Charles Dickens
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!”Charles Dickens
“From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way — Charles Darnay's way: the way of the love of a woman.”Charles Dickens
“How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and that enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me.”Charles Dickens
“I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.”Charles Dickens
“A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.”Charles Dickens
“I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”Charles Dickens
“I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.”Charles Dickens
“There are chords in the human heart — strange, varying strings — that are only struck by accident; they will remain mute and senseless to the most passionate and earnest appeals, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch.”Charles Dickens
“Family should not only consist of those we share blood with, but also those we would give blood for.”Charles Dickens
“It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.”Charles Dickens
“It is required of every person that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men and travel far and wide; and if that spirit does not go forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.”Charles Dickens
