Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, […]
Charles Dickens Quotes
Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.
I love little children, and it is not a slight thing when they, who are fresh from God, love us.
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself. (“A Christmas Carol”)
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.
Here’s the rule for bargains “Do other men, for they would do you.” That’s the true business precept.
‘Business!’ cried the Ghost (Jacob Marley), wringing its hands again. ‘Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!’
Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
