Charles Dickens

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

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.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

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.

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

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

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

I could always hear my better self clearing his throat in the room next door.

Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

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

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for any one else.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result - happiness.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.