Charles Dickens

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.