Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
Injustice breeds injustice
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some
The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.
Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,--they do, thank God!
A Christmas Carol with Simon Callow
The Charles Dickens Museum re-opening
In His Own Write
The original manuscript of 'Great Expectations', currently on show at the Dickens and London exhibition, belongs to the Wisbech & Fenland Museum. Find out more about this piece of history and how it fetched up at the museum in Cambridgeshire. Visit website
