“To the eye it is fair enough here; but seen in its integrity, under the sky, and by the daylight, it is a crumbling tower of waste, mismanagement, extortion, debt, mortgage, oppression, hunger, nakedness, and suffering.”Charles Dickens
“Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.”Charles Dickens
“When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.”Charles Dickens
“"Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point," said Scrooge, "answer me one question. Are these the shadows of the things that will be, or are they shadows of things that may be only?" The Ghost pointed to the grave. "Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead. But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!"”Charles Dickens
“That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. 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
“Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces - and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper - love her, love her, love her!”Charles Dickens
“I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it. I love her against reason — but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.”Charles Dickens
“My heart is set as firmly as ever the heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands and cast them to the wind.”Charles Dickens
“In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.”Charles Dickens
“It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”Charles Dickens
“For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.”Charles Dickens
“And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible but done — done under that sky every day.”Charles Dickens
“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.”Charles Dickens
“No one who can read ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”Charles Dickens
“And can it be that in a world so full and busy, the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!”Charles Dickens
“Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.”Charles Dickens
“Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you.”Charles Dickens
