Quotes by Charles Dickens

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

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

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"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free."

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

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

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"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."

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

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"We forge the chains we wear in life."

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"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

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

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

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

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"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."

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

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"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."

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