"Do all the good you can and..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life.”

“Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity, may form the two sides of the ladder on which some men mount, but the rounds of that ladder must be made of stuff to stand wear and tear; and there is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, and sincere earnestness.”

“And what about the cash, my existence's jewel?”

“There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.”

“The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.”

“You cannot make men good by law.”

“People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.”

“Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.”

“I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.”