"Let no man turn aside, ever so..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes think my life may be but a weary one, I am proud of it and glad of it. I am proud and glad to suffer something for him, even though it is of no service to him, and he will never know of it or care for it.”

“I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.”

“And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.”

“The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.”

“It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.”

“If a thing is worth having, it's worth cheating for.”

“The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.”

“I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.”

“The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.”