Time will show everything to everybody.
Charles Dickens – Martin Chuzzlewit
Time Reveals All
T
Oppression’s Offspring
O
Death may beget life, but oppression can only beget itself.
Charles Dickens – Martin Chuzzlewit
Spring’s Dual Nature
S
Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
Charles Dickens – Martin Chuzzlewit
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
Genius’s Burden
G
A genius needs to keep so much in store, and thus cannot offer you the whole of himself as I do.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
Life and Death Sunrise
L
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin