1. Charles Dickens - “He would make a lovely corpse.”

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2. Charles Dickens - “I only ask for information.”

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3. Charles Dickens - “Here's the rule, for bargains: 'Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept.”

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4. Charles Dickens - “If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.”

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5. Charles Dickens - “Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.”

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6. Charles Dickens - “Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human natur.”

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7. Charles Dickens - “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

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8. Charles Dickens - “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”

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9. Charles Dickens - “'Do other men for they would do you.' That’s the true business precept.”

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10. Charles Dickens - “Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There an’t much credit in that.”

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11. Charles Dickens - “Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”

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12. Charles Dickens - “I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!”

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13. Charles Dickens - “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.”

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14. Charles Dickens - “It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.”

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15. Charles Dickens - “'There are strings,' said Mr. Tappertit, ' ... in the human heart that had better not be wibrated.'”

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16. Charles Dickens - “It will generally be found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.”

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17. Charles Dickens - “‘If the law supposes that,’ said Mr. Bumble ... ‘the law is a ass, a idiot.’”

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18. Charles Dickens - “My life is one demd horrid grind.”

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19. Charles Dickens - “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.”

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20. Charles Dickens - “I love little children—and it is not a slight thing when they, who are fresh from God, love us.”

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21. Charles Dickens - “In love of home, the love of country has its rise.”

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22. Charles Dickens - “It’s over, and can’t be helped, and that’s one consolation, as they always says in Turkey, ven they cuts the wrong man’s head off. [Sam Weller]”

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23. Charles Dickens - “Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”

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24. Charles Dickens - “Anythin’ for a quiet life, as the man said wen he took the sitivation at the lighthouse.”

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25. Charles Dickens - “Here’s the rule for bargains: ‘Do other men, for they would do you.’ [Mr. Pecksniff]”

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