The horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white.
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.
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 tell you I must go! I retorted, roused to something like passion. Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton?—a machine without feelings? and can bear to have m...
[...] 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...
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...
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...
Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it was...
A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forward— that a way, however narrow and difficult, would in time open— predominated over other feelings:...
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet,...
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 would always rather be happy than dignified..
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