[Illustration: Holly Berries From DICKENS ] [Illustration] [Illustration: _Holly Berries_ From DICKENS · ] [Illustration: Copyright DeWolfe Fiske & Co Boston · 1898 ·] First Day. [Illustration] A good action is its own reward. _Dickens._ The will to do well ... is the next thing to having the power. _Mr. Pecksniff._ Forgiveness is a high quality, an exalted virtue. _Martin Chuzzlewit._ In love of home the love of country has its rise. _Old Curiosity Shop._ Tears never yet wound up a clock or worked a steam-engine. _Sam Weller._ Second Day. Show me the man who says anything against women, as women, and I boldly declare, he is not a man. _Pickwick._ Natural affection and instinct are the most beautiful of the Almighty’s works. _Charles Cheeryble._ It must be somewhere written that the virtues of the mothers shall occasionally be visited on the children, as well as the sins of their fathers. _Mr. Jarndyce._ We can all do some good, if we will. _Dickens._ Third Day. In the cause of friendship ... brave all dangers. _Pickwick Papers._ Let us be among the few who do their duty. _Martin Chuzzlewit._ Fortune will not bear chiding. We must not reproach her, or she shuns us. _Old Curiosity Shop._ It is an undoubted fact that all remarkable men have had remarkable mothers. _Haunted Man._ Every man has his enemies. _Old Curiosity Shop._ Fourth Day. [Illustration] For Heaven’s sake let us examine sacredly whether there is any wrong entrusted to us to set right. _Little Dorrit._ Surprises, like misfortunes, rarely come alone. _Dombey and Son._ What the poor are to the poor is little known excepting to themselves and God. _Bleak House._ An honest man is one of the few great works that can be seen for nothing. _Martin Chuzzlewit._ Thinking begets thinking. _Oliver Twist._ Fifth Day. It’s a world of sacred mysteries, and the Creator only knows what lies beneath the surface of His lightest image. _Battle of Life._ There is hope for all who are softened and penitent. There is hope for all such. _Haunted Man._