Charles Dickens — "I am a gentleman. I have been a gentleman all my life."

"There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated."

"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."

"It is a most remarkable thing that the most important events of our lives are often brought about by the most trivial causes."

"The never-failing beauty of the spring!"

"I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time."