When you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life yo… - Charles Dickens

Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

The dignity of his office is never impaired by the absence of efforts on his part to maintain it.

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

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.