“Not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.”

— Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son (1848), Ch. 24

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.”

“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”

“When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.”

“The heart of life is a sphere quiet and serene, and the star that shines therein is fixed for evermore.”

“The mind weighs and measures but it is the spirit that reaches the heart of life and embraces the secret.”

“The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.”