Quotes from Charles Dickens

"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

[H]is gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of us would, if we could; but none of us so much as know our letters in the stars yet - or seem likely to do it in this state of existence - and few languages can be read until their alphabets are mastered.

"An observer of human nature, sir," said Mr. Pickwick.

There's light enough for wot I've got to do.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced had no existence.

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

"Do other men for they would do you." That's the true business precept.

Not to put too fine a point upon it.

As good as gold [Tiny Tim].

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

So I says "My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs." And we had the tea and the affairs too....