“The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.”Charles Dickens
“Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.”Charles Dickens
“Pause, you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”Charles Dickens
“To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.”Charles Dickens
“It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.”Charles Dickens
“In the moonlight, which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is — as the light called human life is — at its coming and its going.”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
“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
“But injustice breeds injustice; fighting shadows and being defeated by them requires the creation of tangible means to fight back.”Charles Dickens
“Family should not only consist of those we share blood with, but also those we would give blood for.”Charles Dickens
“Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.”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
“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
“I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”Charles Dickens
