What I want is frankness, confidence, less conventionality, and freer play of soul. We are so dreadfully artificial. _Dombey and Son._ Sixth Day. [Illustration] Only time shall show us whither each traveler is bound. _Little Dorrit._ Women, the tenderest and most fragile of all God’s creatures, were the oftenest superior to sorrow, adversity and distress. _Pickwick Papers._ The consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being, when all others have deserted us, is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow. _Pickwick Papers._ Seventh Day. [Illustration] Cheerfulness and content are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks. _Barnaby Rudge._ The sea has no appreciation of great men, but knocks them about like small fry. _Bleak House._ A joke is a very good thing ... but when that joke is made at the expense of feelings, I set my face against it. _Nicholas Nickleby._ There can be no confusion in following Him and seeking no other footsteps. _Little Dorrit._ Eighth Day. There is no situation in life so bad that it can’t be mended. _Pickwick Papers._ If the good deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautifully would even death appear; for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection would be seen to have their own growth in dusty graves! _Old Curiosity Shop._ Use and necessity are good teachers-- the best of any. _Stagg._ Philosophers are only men in armour after all. _Pickwick Papers._ Ninth Day. You must expect to go out, some day, like the snuff of a candle; a man can die but once. _Little Dorrit._ Energy and determination have done wonders many a time. _Bleak House._ Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race. _David Copperfield._ In journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. _Nicholas Nickleby._ Let there be union among us. _Mr. Pecksniff._ Tenth Day. Among men who have sound and sterling qualities, there is nothing so contagious as pure openness of heart. _Nicholas Nickleby._