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

The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses

Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.

The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.