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.

And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

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

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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.

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

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.