Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
Charles DickensChristmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.
Charles DickensLet no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.
Charles DickensA man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
Charles Dickens"Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting."
Charles DickensMorning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. The rain came down, thick and fast; and pattered, noisily, among the leafless bushes.
Charles Dickens