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

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.