[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.
You have been the last dream of my soul.
The universe makes rather an indifferent parent, I'm afraid.
It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this r...
From the beginning, she had sat looking at him fixedly. As he now leaned back in his chair, and bent his deep-set eyes upon her in his turn, perhaps he might have seen one wavering moment in her, when...
Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.
There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and a...
He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him.~...
A very little key will open a very heavy door.
A new heart for a New Year, always!
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
This is the even-handed dealing of the world! he said. There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!
The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the racking thoughts that crowd upon the mind, and make the heart beat...
Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.