Charles Dickens — "I am not a man of many words, but I am a man of many thoughts."

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

"It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour."

"The American women are certainly not pretty... They are not graceful, they are not elegant, they are not accomplished, they are not intellectual, they are not virtuous, and they are not honest."

"I have a great objection to all forms of cant and hypocrisy."