Charles Dickens

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

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”

“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”

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

“The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.”

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”

“The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.”

“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.”

“Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.”

“We forge the chains we wear in life.”

“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.”

“The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.”

“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!”

“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.”

“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”

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