Quotes from Charles Dickens

In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.

"Walter," she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, "like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for them, and believe that they will arrive."

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.

... she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries.

We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning - yet before us.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

Never say never

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.

...he walked up and down through life.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life... I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention