I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the ….

Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast..

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart..

I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by a….

Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a convent….

An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music..

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out..

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is incon….

There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as ….

If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to rea….

Philosophers are only men in armor after all..

On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels ….

Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds of prey. The only ques….

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?.

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock..

"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart...".

The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the m….

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!.

"O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me.".

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot..

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected..