Best quotes from The Old Curiosity Shop

The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of truer metal and bear the stamp of Heaven.

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

In the Destroyer’s steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.

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

Heaven be thanked, I love its light and feel the cheerfulness it sheds upon the earth, as much as any creature living.

Where, in the dull eyes of doating men, are the laughing light and life of childhood, the gaiety that has known no check, the frankness that has felt no chill, the hope that has never withered, the joys that fade in blossoming?

For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.

However, the Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.