"It was as true" said Mr. Barkus "as taxes is. And nothing is truer than them."
Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes.
One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.
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...
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
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 that I am, into fire.
هناك كتب .. غلافـها أفضل ما فيها
You are in every line I have ever read.
The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance.
Please, sir, I want some more.
My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in...
Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. J...
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.
I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper...
He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.
For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.
Once a gentleman always a gentleman.
God bless us every one.