“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.”Charles Dickens
“My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention.”Charles Dickens
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”Charles Dickens
“The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.”Charles Dickens
“The night wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round such a building, moaning as it goes, trying with its unseen hand the windows and doors and seeking out crevices by which to enter.”Charles Dickens
“Life is of little worth when we misuse it; yet it is worth the effort. If it were not, letting it go would cost nothing.”Charles Dickens
“There was a long, hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.”Charles Dickens
“There are not many places that I find it more agreeable to revisit, when I am in an idle mood, than some places to which I have never been.”Charles Dickens
“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”Charles Dickens
“Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.”Charles Dickens
“Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.”Charles Dickens
“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”Charles Dickens
“It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.”Charles Dickens
“Credit is a system whereby a person who cannot pay gets another person who cannot pay to guarantee that he can pay.”Charles Dickens
“The meagre lighthouse, all in white and haunting the seaboard as if it were the ghost of an edifice that once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.”Charles Dickens
“Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the person who is so fond of listening that they wish to hear not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.”Charles Dickens
“Home is a name, a word; it is a strong one — stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.”Charles Dickens
