Charles Dickens — "I have a great contempt for all forms of religious bigotry."

"I have been a-thinking, and I have been a-thinking, and I have been a-thinking, and I have come to the conclusion that I am a-thinking a good deal."

"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."

"There are some people who are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses."

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

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