Quotes from Charles Dickens

You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?" "I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "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.

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 day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

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

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.

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

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

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

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

I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!