Charles Dickens
"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor."
-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
"Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart."
-Charles Dickens
"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other."
-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two cities
"And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death."
-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."
-Charles Dickens
"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again."
-Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
"In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong."
-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"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."
-Charles Dickens
"And yet I 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."
-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
"My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest."
-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day."
-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."
-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart."
-Charles Dickens, Hard Times
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“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.”
-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”
-Charles Dickens
"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."
-Charles Dickens
"You are in every line I have ever read."
-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."
-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot."
-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies."
-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair."
-Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities
"The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities."
-Charles Dickens
“Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
