Charles Dickens

There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.

O ’tis love, ’tis love, ’tis love that makes the world go round!

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

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

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

If you keep your head in the sand, you don’t know where the kick’s coming from.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

We want to have something of everything-we have types of every sort of wagon and carriage ever used in this country, from the covered wagon of the pioneer to the last style of buggy. We have nearly every type of agricultural instrument, every type of musical instrument, we have all kinds and sorts of furniture and household effects. One of these days the collection will have its own museum at Dearborn, and there we shall reproduce the life of the country in its every age.

When you embark for strange places don’t leave any of yourself safely at the shore… Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

All systems either of preference or of restraint … completely taken away, the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest in his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man.

When you do something that you really think is stupid, bad decision, irresponsibleand it just happens and you suffer it then that’s penalty. But if you learn from it it becomes tuition.

It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.

Little difficulties are made to swell until they fill our horizon while the real big blessings of life are dwindled down to nothing.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

We don’t see the things the way they are. We see things the way WE are.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.