“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!”
Home
“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.”
CommunicationAll Quotes by Charles Dickens
“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.”
Morning“The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.”
Business“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.”
Great“Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.”
Good“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.”
Men“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”
Good“The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.”
Age“There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.”
Truth“The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.”
Business“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.”
Nature“A boy's story is the best that is ever told.”
Best“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.”
Nature“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.”
Friendship“Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.”
Great“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
Love“Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
Men“Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.”
Good“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
Best“There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.”
Wisdom