By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.

He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!

"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."

When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.