“His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.”

— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)

About Charles Dickens

1812 – 1870

English novelist, author of "A Christmas Carol" and "Great Expectations".

“Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.”

“God bless us every one.”

“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”

“Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.”

“The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.”

“Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand.”

“And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep.”

“No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.”

“The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”