"And a beautiful world we live in,..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“"Vell," said Mr. Weller, "Now I s'pose he'll want to call some witnesses to speak to his character, or p'raps to prove a alleybi. I've been a turnin' the bis'ness over in my mind, and he may make his-self easy, Sammy. I've got some friends as'll do either for him, but my adwice 'ud be this here-never mind the character, and stick to the alleybi. Nothing like a alleybi, Sammy, nothing."”

“He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.”

“The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.”

“You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.”

“I feel my greatest work is yet to come.”

“The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops - that'll be the time to worry. Not before.”

“I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.”

“I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.”

“If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.”