Janet! Donkeys!
It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.
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 object at a time.
How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What h...
For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die....
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have kno...
Minds like bodies will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
'Umble we are 'umble we have been 'umble we shall ever be.
I have known him (Micawber) come home to supper with a flood of tears and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows...
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.
We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condit...
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if...
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
And it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.
Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.