The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.
Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.
The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece ofspecious humbug designed to conceal it's desire for economic control ofthe Southern states.
We went our several ways, said Lady Dedlock, and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.
Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim a...
There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.
What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times.
He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it...
It is a dreadful thing to wait and watch for the approach of death; to know that hope is gone, and recovery impossible; and to sit and count the dreary hours through long, long, nights - such nights a...
The curtains of his bed were drawn aside; and Scrooge, starting up into a half-recumbent attitude, found himself face to face with the unearthly visitor who drew them: as close to it as I am now to yo...
The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that...
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.
It's over and can't be helped and that's one consolation as they always say in Turkey when they cut the wrong man's head off.
You are hard at work madam , said the man near her.Yes, Answered Madam Defarge ; I have a good deal to do.What do you make, Madam ?Many things.For instance ---For instance, returned Madam Defarge , c...
I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.
I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove t...
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of...
In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.
That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause...