The Wisdom of Charles Diskens

• Reflect upon your present blessings, not on your past misfortunes.

• A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

• We need never be ashamed of your tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overly in our hard hearts.

• It is well for a man to respect his own vocation, whatever it is, and to think himself bound ot uphold it , and to claim for it the respect it deserves.

• It is in the nature of things that man cannot really imporve himself without in some degree imporving other men.

• No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

• Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good and impressible for evil.

• Mature affection , homage , devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring , it lays in ambush and waits.