In love of home, the love of country has its rise. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Dickens
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. Charles Dickens (David Copperfield)
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. Charles Dickens
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. Charles Dickens
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. Charles Dickens
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families. Charles Dickens
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature. Charles Dickens
Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal. Charles Dickens
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-humor. Charles Dickens
Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it. 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