Charles Dickens

Heaven knows we need never be afraid of our tears, for they are the rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. (from 'Great Expectations') - Charles Dickens

I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present and the Future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. - Charles Dickens

Please, sir, I want some more. (from 'Oliver Twist') - Charles Dickens

Trifles make the sum of life. (from 'David Copperfield') - Charles Dickens

I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape. (from 'Great Expectations') - Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. {from A Tale of Two Cities} - Charles Dickens

No one is useless in this world... who lightens the burden of it for any one else. (from 'Our Mutual Friend') - Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told. - Charles Dickens

He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens