“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”
— Charles Dickens
“My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”
“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.”
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
“Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.”
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.”
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
“A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.”
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
“Reflect upon your present blessings – of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
“Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.”
“Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.”
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
“The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.”
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
“I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.”
“Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.”
“Walk and be Happy, Walk and be Healthy...”
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before – more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
“There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.”
“I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.”
“It is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.”
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!”
“To a young heart everything is fun.”
“Least said, soonest mended.”
“Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; – the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!”
“We forge the chains we wear in life.”
“A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.”
“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”
“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.”
“A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”
“Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!”
“A very little key will open a very heavy door.”
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”
“It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.”
“There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.”
“The law is an ass, an idiot.”
“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
“An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.”
“Death is a mighty, universal truth.”
“A new heart for a New Year, always!”
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.”
“Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.”
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