Charles Dickens

I am the most intensely and profusely social of all men, but I must have a quantity of clear, solitary, penetrating, and uncomforting observation.

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made all the difference to my life.

I don't believe in the existence of a single human being who is not a rascal.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

I am a man who can be very patient, or very impatient, as occasion serves.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

I have been a good boy, and I have been a bad boy, and I have been a boy who thought he was a good boy, and I have been a boy who knew he was a bad boy.

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

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

It is a most extraordinary thing that I have not been able to get a moment's peace since I came to this house.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

I hope that real love and affection are long-lived. I hope that real love and affection are not easily chilled by absence, or killed by separation.

There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.

Every man has some good in him, and every man has some bad in him.

I have been a-wandering, as the fly says, and I have seen many things.

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and good for a man's digestion, to know that his wife is comfortable and well taken care of; and there is nothing like a comfortable wife, to make a man comfortable.

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

I am a man of whom it is impossible to say too much or too little.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.