Charles Dickens

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

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

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

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

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

Every situation needs a hero. Step up and be that for your child.

Instinct is probably the essence of past experience and knowledge stored up for later use. There are many, you know, who think that this life journey through the world is not the first one we have made. Haven’t you ever come across children who knew things that it was impossible for them to have learned? Have you ever gone to a place for the first time and felt sure that you had been there before? That’s one of the reasons I do not travel much.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.

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

Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.

We want to have something of everything-we have types of every sort of wagon and carriage ever used in this country, from the covered wagon of the pioneer to the last style of buggy. We have nearly every type of agricultural instrument, every type of musical instrument, we have all kinds and sorts of furniture and household effects. One of these days the collection will have its own museum at Dearborn, and there we shall reproduce the life of the country in its every age.

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

I always live in some kind of anticipation of something good happening.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I’m at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa – I can’t face going to bed. I’m there with the TV on and all the lights on. I’m not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.

What gives life its value you can find – and lose. But never posess. This holds good above all for “the Truth about Life.

I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

I attribute whatever I may have been able to accomplish in life far more to my wife than to anything else and to everything else put together. But I cannot flatter myself that I found her because I was a ‘good picker’, I believe profoundly that we are guided, led, in such momentous matters.

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.