Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Charles Dickens

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Charles Dickens

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
Charles Dickens

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
Charles Dickens

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

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
Charles Dickens

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Charles Dickens

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Charles Dickens

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
Charles Dickens

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Charles Dickens

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Charles Dickens

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
Charles Dickens

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
Charles Dickens

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
Charles Dickens

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Charles Dickens

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Charles Dickens

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Charles Dickens

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Charles Dickens

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.
Charles Dickens