I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.
Charles DickensThat glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
Charles DickensIn the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.
Charles DickensHe knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.
Charles DickensHe was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the less space. He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet, and more slowly. He carried his head on one side, partly in modest depreciation of himself, partly in modest propitiation of everybody else.
Charles Dickens