Zitat des Tages von Charles Dickens:
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
We are so very 'umble.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
We forge the chains we wear in life.
'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
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.
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
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.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
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.
Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.