We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.The Old Curiosity Shop, Narrator
Three score and ten! The mind can hardly frame the picture of a span so long, so very long, and yet how brief – alas, how brief – it is!” The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens
Every man thinks his own geese swans.The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens
The child may teach us what society, what wise observation, and what fellow-feeling, have failed to convey.The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens
What if we ARE looking for her in the right direction, and she has gone in the wrong! We never thought of that before.The Old Curiosity Shop, Mr. Singleman
We leave our character in the making of our children, and the chances of the world, which will be kinder to them than to us.The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens
It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. There may be black ingratitude in the thing, and the punishment may be retributive and well deserved.The Old Curiosity Shop, Narrator
When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise.The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens
When we are weary with travel, we stop to refresh among friends. Should we not do the same on our journey to Eternity?The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens
When the worst comes to the worst, the poorest will have to suffer no more than the richest, and there is something comfortable in that.The Old Curiosity Shop, Marton
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens
The cloud which sprinkles us with tears, when it passes away leaves a clear space in the mind.The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens