"The day was made for laziness, and..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.”

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”

“This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!”

“Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.”

“Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.”

“The sleeping fox catches no poultry.”

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”

“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.”

“What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.”