"A very little key will open a..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.”

“It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.”

“I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.”

“Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.”

“Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand & work with whatever tools you may have.”

“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.”

“It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.”

“The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one very windy but bright moonlight night, when the stars were few and faint, thought that a man could get along with them,-though he was considerably reduced in his circumstances,-that they were a kind of bread and cheese that never failed.”

“Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.”