'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.' Charles Dickens More Quotes by Charles Dickens More Quotes From Charles Dickens Discipline must be maintained. Charles Dickens discipline Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race. Charles Dickens obstacles race winning The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. Charles Dickens bleak-house principles law Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions. Charles Dickens morality business men A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match. Charles Dickens guarantees-that literature two I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends. Charles Dickens humorous expectations funny There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it. Charles Dickens memories life children [She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads. Charles Dickens heart may heaven And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round! Charles Dickens this-life song world There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect Charles Dickens quarrels party two I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness. Charles Dickens increase humble desire Least said, soonest mended Charles Dickens said The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble. Charles Dickens light law thinking Scattered wits take a long time in picking up. Charles Dickens long-time wit long Some people are nobody's enemies but their own Charles Dickens people enemy Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime. Charles Dickens candle remembrance christmas In love of home, the love of country has its rise. Charles Dickens love-you home country Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it. Charles Dickens atheism perfect religion Keep up appearances whatever you do. Charles Dickens politics political advice Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase Charles Dickens eye gold heart