They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his br...
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop, returned madame; but don't tell me.
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed...
Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.
Never, said my aunt, be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.
Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least ple...
Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead, said Scrooge. But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.
Man, said the Ghost, if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall d...
I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.
Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.
And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.
What is he to learn? To imitate? Or to avoid? When your friends the bees worry themselves about their sovereign, and become perfectly distracted touching the slightest monarchical movement, are we men...
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
And, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.
You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay
You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one...
We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!
The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to...