Charles Dickens Quotes About Benevolence

• But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!

  Charles Dickens

  Ocean, Men, Hands

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

• Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

  Charles Dickens

  Scrooge, Charity, Mercy

  Charles Dickens (1845). “A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.33

• Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained.

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Gratitude, Strong

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist; Or, the Parish Boy's Progress”, p.364

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