Wisdom Quotes, page 133

“Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.”

“If the parks be 'the lungs of London,' we wonder what Greenwich Fair is — a periodical breaking out, we suppose — a sort of spring rash.”

“Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?”

“I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything.”

“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.”

“You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to facts, sir.”

“It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens the temper; so cry away.”

“I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.”

“Man, said the Ghost, if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered what the surplus is and where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh God! to hear the insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!”

“Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism are all very good words for the lips.”

“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.”

“"I don't know what day of the month it is!" said Scrooge. "I don't know how long I've been among the Spirits. I don't know anything. I'm quite a baby. Never mind. I don't care. I'd rather be a baby. Hallo! Whoop!"”

“Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.”

“I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the pride of this house is humbled.”

“Radical hope anticipates a good for which those who have the hope as yet lack the appropriate concepts with which to understand it.”

“Stupid is as stupid does.”

“I believe you make your own destiny. You have to do the best with what God gave you.”

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you is a boy who loves you.”

“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”