Charles Dickens

I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty’s head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.

Charles Dickens

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Charles Dickens

I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

Charles Dickens

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Charles Dickens

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Charles Dickens

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

Charles Dickens

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Charles Dickens

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Charles Dickens

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Charles Dickens

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

Charles Dickens