Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.
Charles DickensWhat an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!
Charles DickensYou may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!
Charles DickensThe haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands. There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself nothing that looked older or more worn than he.
Charles Dickens