I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.
Charles DickensFor not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.
Charles DickensMany merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.
Charles DickensAffery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.
Charles DickensThere is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing.
Charles Dickens