So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and a….

Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead.

... she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries..

"I go so far as to say, miss, morehover," proceeded Mr. Cruncher, with a most alarming tendency to hold forth as from a pulpit-"and let my words be t….

The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the gr….

... Waiter! raw beef-steak for the gentleman's eye,-nothing like raw beef-steak for a bruise, sir; cold lamp-post very good, but lamp-post inconvenie….

Discipline must be maintained..

"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'….

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage..

Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram..

It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of na….

What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?.

I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any k….

Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life..

Grief never mended no broken bones..

a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others..

The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were i….

it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no ….

When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life..

Eccentricities of genius..

My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property..