Charles Dickens

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

- Charles Dickens

"A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!"

- Charles Dickens

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

- Charles Dickens

"For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself."

- Charles Dickens

"God bless us, every one!"

- Charles Dickens

"God bless us, everyone!"

- Charles Dickens

"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveler, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!"

- Charles Dickens

"For it is good to be children sometimes and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself."

- Charles Dickens

"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."

- Charles Dickens

"Come, let’s be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with."

- Charles Dickens

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

- Charles Dickens

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."

- Charles Dickens

"The sun himself is weak when he first rises; and gathers strength and courage as the day goes on."

- Charles Dickens

"The sun himself is weak when he first rises; and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."

- Charles Dickens

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Charles Dickens

"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts."

- Charles Dickens

"We forge the chains we wear in life."

- Charles Dickens

"The Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."

- Charles Dickens

"I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape."

- Charles Dickens

"The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."

- Charles Dickens

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

- Charles Dickens

"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."

- Charles Dickens

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another."

- Charles Dickens

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair."

- Charles Dickens

"My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time."

- Charles Dickens

"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor."

- Charles Dickens

"The sun himself is weak when he first rises and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."

- Charles Dickens

"I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape."

- Charles Dickens

"The pain of parting is nothing compared to the joy of meeting again."

- Charles Dickens

"Life is made of so many partings welded together."

- Charles Dickens

"I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul."

- Charles Dickens

"You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read."

- Charles Dickens

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

- Charles Dickens

"The Sun himself is weak when he first rises and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."

- Charles Dickens

"The Sun. The bright Sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man-burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory."

- Charles Dickens

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

- Charles Dickens

"Nothing in the world is as contagious as laughter and good humor."

- Charles Dickens

"We need never be afraid of our tears."

- Charles Dickens

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

- Charles Dickens

"Morning made a considerable difference in my general prospect of Life, and brightened it so much that it scarcely seemed the same."

- Charles Dickens

"The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will’. Consider nothing impossible then treat possibilities as probabilities."

- Charles Dickens

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

- Charles Dickens

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold, when it is summer in the light and winter in the shade."

- Charles Dickens

"Of all the months of the year there is not a month one half so welcome to the young, or so full of happy associations, as the last month of the year."

- Charles Dickens

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

- Charles Dickens

"Life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will’. Consider nothing impossible then treat possibilities as probabilities."

- Charles Dickens

"My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time."

- 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

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery."

- Charles Dickens

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

- Charles Dickens

"However, the Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."

- 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

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

- 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

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

- Charles Dickens

"In love of home, the love of country has its rise."

- Charles Dickens

"Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than any magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration."

- Charles Dickens

"Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door."

- Charles Dickens

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."

- Charles Dickens

"My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest."

- Charles Dickens

"What greater gift than the love of a cat."

- Charles Dickens

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

- 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

"Stop saying "I wish". Start saying "I will.”"

- Charles Dickens

""My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.""

- Charles Dickens

""The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.""

- Charles Dickens

"Nothing in the world is as contagious as laughter and good humour."

- Charles Dickens

"Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it’s happened."

- Charles Dickens

""Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.""

- Charles Dickens

"We need never be ashamed of our tears."

- Charles Dickens

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but— I hope— into a better shape."

- Charles Dickens

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own."

- Charles Dickens

"Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!…. his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes."

- Charles Dickens

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every person has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all people have some."

- 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

"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time."

- 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

"There is no greater gift than the love of a cat."

- Charles Dickens

"Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last."

- Charles Dickens

"I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us."

- Charles Dickens

"And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment."

- Charles Dickens

"A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!"

- Charles Dickens

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

- Charles Dickens

"Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn."

- Charles Dickens

"Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade."

- Charles Dickens

"It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers."

- Charles Dickens

"The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose."

- Charles Dickens

"If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish."

- Charles Dickens

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

- Charles Dickens

"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other."

- Charles Dickens

""The Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.""

- Charles Dickens

"For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself."

- Charles Dickens

"It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us, Every One!"

- Charles Dickens

"It’s always something, to know you’ve done the most you could. But don’t leave off hoping, or it’s of no use doing anything. Hope, hope to the last."

- Charles Dickens

"Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage."

- Charles Dickens

"Champagne is one of the elegant extras in life."

- Charles Dickens

"There were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all."

- Charles Dickens

"Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime."

- Charles Dickens

"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free."

- Charles Dickens

"“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”"

- Charles Dickens

"The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities."

- Charles Dickens

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Charles Dickens