There is never enough time to do or say all the things that we would wish; The thing is to do as much as you can in the time that you have

Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a...

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

It’s my opinion, sir, that this meeting is drunk.

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because...

Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken...

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

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

Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment....

We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau, tea, coffee, ham and eggs…

…he walked up and down through life.

Junto dela nunca tive nem uma hora de felicidade, mas, mesmo assim, meu espírito, durante as vinte e quatro horas do dia, ainda desejava a felicidade de tê-la junto de mim até a morte.

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.

We know, Mr. Weller — we, who are men of the world — that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

If your governor don’t prove a alleybi, he’ll be what the Italians call reg’larly flummoxed

With a fierce action of her hand, as if she sprinkled hatred on the ground, and with it devoted those who were standing there to destruction, she looked up once at the black sky, and...

Oh! I know their tricks and their manners.

There is no wealth, she went on, turning paler as she watched him, while her eyes grew yet more lustrous in their earnestness, “”that could buy these words of me, and the meaning that belongs...

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

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It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one’s hand.

A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away–the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us–is a hold, a...

Ich schwieg und dachte daran, was für ein Aschenputteldasein sieh geführt hatte, bis Mr. Wopsles Großtante endlich die schlechte Gewohnheit aufgab zu leben, die manche Menschen besser ablegen sollten.

Some conjurers say that number three is the magic number, and some say number seven. It’s neither my friend, neither. It’s number one. (Fagin)

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one’s self in...

The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.

I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlick being the right sort of man to fill a post of trust at Miss Havisham’s. ‘Why of course he is not the right sort of...

As she stooped over him, her tears fell upon his forehead.The boy stirred, and smiled in his sleep, as though these marks of pity and compassion had awakened some pleasant dream of a love and...

Sin embargo, notábanse en esta gente una gentileza y un infantilismo extraordinarios, una incapacidad especial para el engaño, una disposición incansable para ayudarse y compadecerse mutuamente, que merecían con frecuencia tanto respeto y un aprecio...

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done– done, see you!– under that sky there, every day.

Dickens writes that one of his characters, “listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to...

Lord, keep my memory green.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week,...

. . . judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

It is required of every man, the ghost returned, “”that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it...

A highly geological home-made cake.

They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity and noise like roaring waters suddenly let...

If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, ‘I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender...

Pass the rosy wine.

‘Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of...

Por menos valor que tenha a vida quando é desperdiçada, vale, contudo, a pena defendê-la. Se assim não fosse, não custaria abandoná-la.

She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was...

Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for...