Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
— Charles Dickens
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
'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'.
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
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.
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
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.
You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
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!
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
He would make a lovely corpse.
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.
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
