It is the fate of a lonely man never to be alone.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Fury Warning
Beware of the fury of a patient man.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Talking Poetry
Poetry’s unnat’ral; no man ever talked poetry ‘cept a beadle on boxin’ day.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Moral Remedies
There are very few things in this world which will bear too much looking into; and the best of all moral remedies for any kind of sorrow is—distraction.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Good Lawyers
It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Out-of-Door Relief
The great principle of out-of-door relief is to give the paupers exactly what they don’t want; and then they get tired of coming.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Object in Life
A good tempered man may have just as good an object in life as a bad-tempered one.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Not Repine
We must not repine; it is the common lot of humanity.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Understood Before Speaking
There is nothing so comfortable as to feel that you are understood before you speak, and that your motives are apprehended before they are explained.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Strange Mutability
I am ruminating on the strange mutability of human affairs.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers