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

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

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

I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!.

Just watching Robert De Niro was all the words of wisdom I really needed..

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow..

"Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. ".

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

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed..

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again..

Here I shall add that the concept of change, and with it the concept of motion, as change of place, is possible only through and in the representatio….

I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain'….

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….

To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. to master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength. to know content….

When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others..

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

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