"Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
What greater gift than the love of a cat.
More Charles Dickens quotes
"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.
"When ladies as young, and good, and beautiful as you are," replied the girl steadily, "give away your hearts, love will carry you all lengths--even su...
"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.
"Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!
"The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.
"And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am,...
"I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.
"For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you. And when you see your own brig...
"They looked at one another, and their hearts died within them.
"The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, ...
"Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmu...
"...I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in...
"Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.
". . . 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.