Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. ”

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. ”

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. ”

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. ”

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. ”

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. ”

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

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions. ”

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. ”

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. ”