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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Charles Dickens

Soul

Communication

Will

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Charles Dickens

Friendship

Wine

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Charles Dickens

Men

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens

Heart

Temper

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

Charles Dickens

Credit

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

Charles Dickens

Painting

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Charles Dickens

Heart

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Charles Dickens

Wisdom

Heart

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

Action

World

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Charles Dickens

Books

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Charles Dickens

Vices

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.