I have an affection for the road ... formed in the impressibility of untried youth and hope. Author: Charles Dickens Copy Quote More from Charles Dickens “persuading himself that he was a mostconscientious and glorious martyr, [he] no…” “for not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an o…” “She has a fine genius for poetry, combined with real business earnestness, and …” “Chateau and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone flo…”