“ 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. Charles Dickens
“ Before I go, he said, and paused -- I may kiss her?It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, to… Charles Dickens
“ Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true. Charles Dickens
“ There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and a… Charles Dickens
“ She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good. Charles Dickens
“ Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail… Charles Dickens
“ [S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. Charles Dickens
“ That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society. Charles Dickens
“ [She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads. Charles Dickens
“ There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat. Charles Dickens
“ In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going. Charles Dickens
