If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
Charles DickensThe streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them
Charles DickensSo does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.
Charles DickensFor though we are perpetually bragging of it as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper.
Charles Dickens... when he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her thrilling voice, so natural and sweet, and such a golden link between him and all his life's love and happiness, rising out of the silence; he turned his face away, and hid his tears.
Charles Dickens