“ I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation. The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brot… Charles Dickens
“ I recollect it was settled by general consent that India was quite a misrepresented country, and had nothing objectionable in it, but a tiger or two, and a little heat in the warm part of the day. Charles Dickens
“ Aye, though he loved her from his soul with such a self denying love as woman seldom wins; he spoke from first to last of Martin. Charles Dickens
“ In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respe Charles Dickens
“ The lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with a red upon it that the sun had never given, and would never take away. Charles Dickens
“ Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was. Charles Dickens
“ When she spoke, Tom held his breath, so eagerly he listened; when she sang, he sat like one entranced. She touched his organ, and from that bright epoch even it, the old companion of his happiest hour… Charles Dickens
“ Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather sel… Charles Dickens
“ Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging their bread; go, Teachers of co… Charles Dickens
“ Mrs. Rouncewell holds this opinion because she considers that a family of such antiquity and importance has a right to a ghost. She regards a ghost as one of the privileges of the upper classes, a gen… Charles Dickens
“ Spring is the time of the year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade Charles Dickens
“ To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify. Charles Dickens
“ . . . such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards it the centre of a flushed and boisterous group, just in time to greet the father, who came home… Charles Dickens
“ What the mud had been doing with itself, or where it came from, who could say? But it seemed to collect in a moment, as a crowd will, and in five minutes to have splashed all the sons and daughters of… Charles Dickens
“ Eleven years she had lived in the dark house and its gloomy garden. He was jealous of the very light and air getting to her, and they kept her close. He stopped the wide chimneys, shaded the little wi… Charles Dickens
“ Oliver has long since grown stout and healthy; but health or sickness made no difference in his warm feelings to those about him, though they do in the feelings of a great many people. He was still th… Charles Dickens
“ Then it is your opinion…that a man should never-“-Invest in portable property in a friend?”… “Certainly he should not. Unless he wants to get rid of the friend- and then it becomes a question how much… Charles Dickens
