“Money and goods are certainly the best of references.”

— Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend (1865), Book I, Ch. 4

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.”

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”