charles Dickens

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

“I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation [the United States] in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.”

“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.”

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

“Reflect on your present blessings of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.”

“Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.”

“This dismal Cairo [Illinois], an ugly sepulchre, a grave uncheered by any gleam of promise.”