If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.
Charles DickensAnd can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!
Charles DickensAnd I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.
Charles DickensI have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.
Charles Dickens