Charles Dickens

"We forge our own chains and are our own jailers"

"The beauty of nature has a way of lifting the human spirit"

"Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead"

"The power of imagination is limitless in the creative mind"

"History is but a record of what people have thought and done"

"Music has charms to soothe the savage breast"

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity"

"Better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness"

"What is hope but thinking of a brighter future"

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet"

"In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place"

"Patience is a virtue that time will surely reward"

"Wounds of the heart are healed by kindness and understanding"

"The doors of opportunity open to those who knock"

"True strength lies in gentleness of spirit"

"What greater gift than the love of a faithful friend"

"The soul is dyed the colour of its thoughts"

"One cannot direct the wind but can adjust the sails"

"The heart knows what the mind does not yet understand"

"Nothing is good or bad but by company"

"Love makes us all capable of extraordinary things"

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas"

"Small acts of kindness are never small in their effects"

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it now"

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look sorrowfully on the closed door"

"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes to do but in liking what one has to do"

"Every human heart contains infinite possibilities"

"The pursuit of knowledge is noble and eternal"

"Death is but a transition to another form of existence"

"Courage is not the absence of fear but action despite it"