Cheerfulness and content are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of youthful looks, depend upon it.Charles Dickens
There are strings,' said Mr. Toots, 'in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.Mr. Toots
Once admit the right of the people to share in, or make, the law, and they will not long be content with making a mere fraction of the law necessary for their own protection.Charles Dickens
Why should a man whose blood is warm within, sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?Charles Dickens
You must have patience. Rome, Paul, wasn't built in a day.Mrs. Pipchen
I have no doubt, James,' returned Mr. Chick, 'that you are very much in the right.James Chick
What could I have said? I had a vision of our daughter, in time to come, weeping for the father that forsook her in her innocent childhood.Florence Dombey
It is a fact which will long be remembered as remarkable down there, that she was never drowned, but died triumphantly in bed, at ninety-two.Charles Dickens
It is a principle of his. It is no eccentricity. I understand it, and respect it; but... it has its effect upon a person's mind.Charles Dombey
Little Paul Dombey went home without blowing any sea-bubbles, but his head was filled with wondering thoughts about the sea and the ships; and why the waves were always hurrying and hustling themselves; and where the sky began and where it left off.Charles Dickens
The waves had fought with such brave cheer, through the long night, that the poor ship, bereft of captain, mate, and crew, scarred and wounded, but still afloat, and fluttering its signal of distress, was first descried.Charles Dickens
Though it's a very unpleasant thing to have a constant reminder that one's getting no younger, still, when we recollect in how many cases it might be so very different, Chick, we have reason to be thankful.Charles Chick
Labor omnia improba vincit.Paul Dombey
Papa could have loved me when I was a little child quite as much as he loves Florence. Could he not?Paul Dombey
I don't know where your heart is. I don't know what you have done with it. I don't know what has replaced it.Florence Dombey