The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough. Death, self-interest, and fortune's changes, are every day breaking up many a happy group, and scattering them far and wide; and the boys and girls never come back again.
Charles DickensOur affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.
Charles DickensI think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.
Charles Dickens