Charles Dickens

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Minds like bodies will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Secret and self-contained and solitary as an oyster.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many-not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favour of two.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes.

It's over and can't be helped and that's one consolation as they always say in Turkey when they cut the wrong man's head off.

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

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

"If the law supposes that " said Mr. Bumble "the law is a ass a idiot."

It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

'Umble we are 'umble we have been 'umble we shall ever be.

This is a world of action and not for moping and droning in.

Once a gentleman always a gentleman.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.

I have known him (Micawber) come home to supper with a flood of tears and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house "in case anything turned up " which was his favorite expression.