If your destiny leads you into public life and public station, you must expect to be subjected to temptations which other people is free from. _Pickwick Papers._ There is no substitute for thorough-going ardent, and sincere earnestness. _David Copperfield._ If our inclinations are but good and open-hearted, let us gratify them boldly, though they bring upon us loss instead of profit. _Martin Chuzzlewit._ Sixteenth Day. There is no royal road to learning, and what is life but learning. _Our Mutual Friend._ Anxious people often magnify an evil and make it worse. _Old Curiosity Shop._ [Illustration] Try not to associate bodily defects with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason. _David Copperfield._ What we have to do is to turn our faces in our new direction, and keep straight on. _Our Mutual Friend._ Be careful to develope your talents. _A Tale of Two Cities._ Seventeenth Day. Nothing is past hope. _Christmas Carol._ There is scarcely a sin in the world that is in my eyes such a crying one as ingratitude. _Tom Pinch._ Truth and honesty, like precious stones, are perhaps most easily imitated at a distance. _Nicholas Nickleby._ Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. _Great Expectations._ The best among us need deal lightly with faults. _Dickens._ Eighteenth Day. [Illustration] Monarchs imagine attractions in the lives of beggars. _Dombey and Son._ No man who was not a true gentleman at heart ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. _Great Expectations._ All happiness has an end--hence the chief pleasure of its next beginning. _Old Curiosity Shop._ You should feel the Dignity of Labour. _The Chimes._ [Illustration] Nature often enshrines gallant and noble hearts in weak bosoms. _Old Curiosity Shop._ Nineteenth Day. It is the duty of a man to be just before he is generous. _Martin Chuzzlewit._ It is difficult to offer aid to an independent man. _Barnaby Rudge._ Go in and win--an admirable thing to recommend if you only know how to do it. _Pickwick._