The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas…. – Charles Dickens
There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood. – Charles Dickens
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Dont trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by 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