Charles Dickens

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

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

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

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

[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

If only I had known then the speed with which she could die, maybe I wouldn’t have become the hemlock.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Never trust anyone who wants what you’ve got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends’ children… the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.

Life on the road is murder. It’s as though life begins and ends with your horn in your mouth.

The point of quotations is that one can use another’s words to be insulting.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

I don’t read history. That’s in the past. I’m thinking of the future.

Imitate, assimilate and innovate.