“Change begets change.”
Charles Dickens
“Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.”
Charles Dickens
“Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
Charles Dickens
“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.”
Charles Dickens
“Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.”
Charles Dickens
“Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.”
Charles Dickens
“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”
Charles Dickens
“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”
Charles Dickens
“May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?”
Charles Dickens
“Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!”
Charles Dickens
“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”
Charles Dickens