There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known

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

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you`ve conquered human nature

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . .

He would make a lovely corpse.

Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christ

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you`ve conquered human nature.

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.