Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

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

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

Every idiot who goes about with a ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it’s blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

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

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

We forget the chains we wear in life.

I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.

Never,” said my aunt, “be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.

Please, sir, I want some more.

I must do something or I shall wear my heart away.

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.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

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 object at a time.

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; – the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

Trifles make the sum of life.

There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

Life is made of so many partings welded together

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

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It’s so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.” (Frauds on the Fairies, 1853)

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.

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop,” returned madame; “but don’t tell me.

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disninterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

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

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

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.

A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.

No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused

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

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

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.

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.

My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!

I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

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

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

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

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

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

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.

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

You are in every line I have ever read.

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.

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

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

‎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.

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

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

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

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

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

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

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

You have been the last dream of my soul.

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

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

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

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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