“In love of home, the love of country has its rise.”

— Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 38

About Charles Dickens

1812 – 1870

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

“Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.”

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

“God bless us every one.”

“The best way to worship God is to love your wife.”

“He loved no other place, and yet Home was no home to him.”

“Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.”

“Give all to love; obey thy heart.”