Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.Charles Dickens
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.Charles Dickens
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.Charles Dickens
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!Charles Dickens
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.Charles Dickens
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.Charles Dickens
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.Charles Dickens
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.Charles Dickens
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.Charles Dickens
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.Charles Darwin
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.Charles Darwin