But if I feel, may I never express? Never! declared Reason.I groaned under her bitter sternness. Never - never - oh, hard word! This hag, this Reason, would not let me look up, or smile, or hope; she...
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.
I will bestir myself,' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.
Life is so constructed that the event does not cannot will not match the expectation.
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Look twice before you leap.
It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must dev...
I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomor...
[...] I daily wished more to please him; but to do so, I felt daily more and more that I must disown half my nature, stifle half my faculties, wrest my tastes from their original bent, force myself to...
This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great single cloud disparts and rolls away from heaven, not passing and leaving a sea all s...
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.
Tell me, now, fairy as you are, - can't you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort, to make me a handsome man?It would be past the power of magic, sir; and, in thought, I added,a lov...
I would always rather be happy than dignified..
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
I know my maker sanctions what I do. For the world's judgement - I wash my hands thereof. For man's opinion- I defy it
I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home, not a...
Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
Do you think me, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless?
It is madness in al women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead into miry wilds...