Dickens, Charles

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else."

"This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in."

"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free." - Bleak House

"It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations." - Bleak House

"Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families." - David Copperfield

". . . skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape." - David Copperfield

"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." - end of A Tale of Two Cities

"In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice." - Great Expectations

"Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation." - Great Expectations

"Now, what I want is, Facts . . . Facts alone are wanted in life." - Hard Times

"Here's the rule for bargains - Do other men, for they would do you. That's the true business precept." - Martin Chuzzlewit

"Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that." - Martin Chuzzlewit