| No. | Quotation | Subject | Source |
| 1 | Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
| Abstinence | Nicholas Nickleby |
| 2 | This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
| Action | |
| 3 | I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation [the United States] in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.
| America | |
| 4 | He'd make a lovely corpse.
| Assassination | Martin Chuzzlewit |
| 5 | Each baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
| Baby | Nicholas Nickleby |
| 6 | How blessings brighten as they take their flight!
| Blessings | |
| 7 | Do other men for they would do you. That's the true business precept.
| Business | |
| 8 | I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
| Cheer | |
| 9 | A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay.
| Credit | |
| 10 | Now what I want is, Facts. . . Facts alone are wanted in life.
| Facts | |
