"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

You should keep dogs-fine animals-sagacious.

Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity, may form the two sides of the ladder on which some men mount, but the rounds of that ladder must be made of stuff to stand wear and tear; and there is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.