Charles Dickens

I am the only child of parents who have been married for fifty years, and I have no idea what that means.

The life of man is of no greater duration than the breath of his nostrils.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

I wear the chain I forged in life... I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self-confidence and good humor.

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

It was as true as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'.

I never could lie down at night without a sense of fraud and imposture.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart.

I am what I am, an' I'm not ashamed of it.

Poetry makes life what it is worth living.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

The broken hearts of the world are many, but the mended ones are few.