How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen! – Charles Dickens
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you. – Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. – Charles Dickens
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. – Charles Dickens
Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex. – George Bernard Shaw