Money ... some people find their gratification in storing it up, and others in parting with it. _Martin Chuzzlewit._ Only the wisdom that holds the clue to all hearts and all mysteries can surely know to what extent a man can impose upon himself. _Little Dorrit._ Every man came into this world for something. _Gabriel Varden._ Twenty-fifth Day. [Illustration] Perfect coolness and self-possession ... are indispensable accomplishments of a great mind. _Pickwick Papers._ The hill has not lifted its face to Heaven yet, that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last. _Nicholas Nickleby._ If you can’t get to be uncommon through going straight, you’ll never get to do it through being crooked. _Great Expectations._ Twenty-sixth Day. Cheerful of spirit and guiltless of affectation true practical Christianity ever is. _The Uncommercial Traveller._ Live at least, in peace, and trust in God to help. _Nicholas Nickleby._ Reflect upon your present blessings-- of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. _Sketches by Boz._ All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers. _Great Expectations._ Twenty-seventh Day. There’s a moral in everything, if we would only avail ourselves of it. _Dombey and Son._ It is the highest part of the highest creed to forgive before memory sleeps, and ever to remember how the good overcame the evil. _Haunted Man._ There is nothing, no, nothing innocent or good that dies and is forgotten. _Old Curiosity Shop._ It does not follow that the more talkative a person becomes the more agreeable he is. _Dickens._ [Illustration] Twenty-eighth Day. Blustering assertion goes for proof half over the world. _Little Dorrit._ From rough outsides serene and gentle influences often proceed. _Dickens._ A generous nature is not prone to strong aversions, and is slow to admit them even dispassionately. _Little Dorrit._ Twenty-ninth Day. Work: don’t make fine playing speeches about bread, but earn it. _Ralph Nickleby._ If I do my duty, I do what I ought, and do no more than all the rest. _Dombey and Son._