Charles Dickens

A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match. ”

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. ”

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. ”

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society. ”

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. ”

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated. ”

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. ”

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. ”

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

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas. ”