Charles Dickens

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and good for a man's heart, that however poor he may be, he always has a thousand friends; and not one of them will desert him.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

The best way to make a man feel at home is to make him feel at home.

I am not a man of many words, but I am a man of many thoughts.

It was a dark and stormy night.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Family not only need to consist of blood relations, but of all those who make you feel you belong.

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

It's a good thing to be rich, and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

He was a man who, if he had a mind to do a thing, would do it.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

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

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

He was a man of a ponderous and solemn aspect; a man who might have been a bishop, or a judge, or a prime minister, or anything else that was grave and dignified.

The never-failing beauty of the spring!

There are some people who are like a good fire—they warm you up.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from December to March, inclusive, she is to be found in the bare ruin of her winter, as truly beautiful as in the full bloom of summer.

I have been in love with the idea of being in love.

The town was a place of great resort, and much business was done there.