Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.
Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.
I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.
To surround anything, however monstrous or ridiculous, with an air of mystery, is to invest it with a secret charm, and power of attraction which to the crowd is irresistible.
I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
He cross-examined his very wine when he had nothing else at hand.
There are strings in the human heart which must never be sounded by another, and drinks that I make myself are those strings in mine.
For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other goes away.
In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.
When I went out, light of day seemed a darker color than when I went in.
The miserable man was a man of that confined stolidity of mind that he could not discuss my prospects without having me before him.
I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.
She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast.
Remember how strong we are in our happiness and how weak he is in his misery!
The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.
