“ No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. Charles Dickens
“ I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disninterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her. Charles Dickens
“ And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never. Charles Dickens
“ All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes… Charles Dickens
“ Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes. Charles Dickens
“ When ladies as young, and good, and beautiful as you are," replied the girl steadily, "give away your hearts, love will carry you all lengths--even such as you, who have home, friends, other admireres… Charles Dickens
“ There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes, which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from a sense of things about it, and enable it to ramble at its pleasure. So far… Charles Dickens
“ So new to him, she muttered, so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!... Charles Dickens
“ Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues — faith and hope. Charles Dickens
“ Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it? Charles Dickens
“ I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt Charles Dickens
