I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that — as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. – Charles Dickens
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips. – Charles Dickens
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those dark, clustered houses encloses it – Charles Dickens
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. – Charles Dickens