Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
Injustice breeds injustice
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some
The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.
Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,--they do, thank God!
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Celebrating Dickens at Words by the Water: Jenny Hartley
Keswick, UK
Sun, 4th March 2012 - Sun, 4th March 2012
What was it like to be Charles Dickens? His letters are the nearest we can get to an autobiography: vivid close-up snapshots of a life lived at maximum intensity. Dickens was a man with ten times the energy of ordinary mortals and he threw himself into letter-writing as he did into everything else, He claimed to write 'at the least, a dozen a day'. They were an outlet for his high spirits and sparkling wit.
