So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensib...
Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.
Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning anim...
No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.
My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!
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.
I don't know what to do! cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am...
I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.
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...
Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.
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...
Why don't you cry again, you little wretch?-Because I'll never cry for you again.
"If the law supposes that " said Mr. Bumble "the law is a ass a idiot."
Once a gentleman always a gentleman.
It is a far far better thing that I do than anything I have ever done it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
God bless us every one.
Oh, miss Haversham said I,there have been sore mistakes and my life has been a blind and thankless one, and I want forgiveness and direction far too much to be bitter with you.
I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.