Charles Dickens

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.