Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.