"A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man."
"I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest."
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Source: Charles Dickens, Georgina Hogarth, Mary Dickens (2011). “Letters of Charles Dickens: 1833-1870”, p.671, Cambridge University Press
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