Charles Dickens Quotes
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And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.
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To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!
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Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.
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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have better eyes for the darkness than for the light. We, who have no such optical powers, are better pleased to take our last parting look at the visionary companions of many solitary hours, when the brief sunshine of the world is blazing full upon them.
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Walk and be Happy, Walk and be Healthy.
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He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.
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The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers’ eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night.
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Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.
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There wasn't room to swing a cat there.
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Circumstances beyond my individual control.
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You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.
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My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.