Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist Quotes
For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Some conjurers say that number three is the magic number, and some say number seven. It's neither my friend, neither. It's number one. (Fagin)