H.W. Charles Quotes

Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.

Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher.

Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.

The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.

I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.

When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.

Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life?

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.

An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash.

Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.

You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.

My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.

Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.

What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!

Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison.

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

Oliver Twist has asked for more!

"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.