Charles Dickens

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

I no longer feel the need of seeking out conscious Americanism. Because we live here and work here, we can be certain that when our music is mature it will also be American in quality.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Most fashionable commodity in US is going to be old-fashioned common sense and work.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Life has two rules: 1. Never quite 2. Always remember 1.

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood. But everyone has something to give.

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes… men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

I don’t follow what everybody else does.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.