Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
Charles Dickens – Martin Chuzzlewit
Spring’s Dual Nature
S
Obstinate Man’s Beliefs
O
An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him.
Charles Dickens – Martin Chuzzlewit
Business Reciprocity
B
Do other men for they would do you. That’s the true business precept.
Charles Dickens – Martin Chuzzlewit
Count Your Blessings
C
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many.
Charles Dickens – Martin Chuzzlewit
Family Accidents
F
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.
Charles Dickens – Martin Chuzzlewit
Change Propagates Change
C
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.
Charles Dickens – Martin Chuzzlewit
Ludicrous Distress
L
There are very few moments in a man’s existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with half so much amusement as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Never Alone
N
It is the fate of a lonely man never to be alone.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Always Wrong
A
The absent are always in the wrong.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Talking Poetry
T
Poetry’s unnat’ral; no man ever talked poetry ‘cept a beadle on boxin’ day.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers