But the long hours of mechanical drudgery were telling on his active body and undisciplined nerves. He had begun too late to subject himself to the persistent mortification of spirit and flesh which i...
But it is comparatively easy to behave beautifully when one is getting what one wants, and when some one else, who has not always been altogether kind, is not.
But is it necessary, he urged, to confound Christ with His ministers, the law with its exponents? May not men preserve their hope of heaven and yet lead more endurable lives on earth? Ah, my child, be...
But in a few years more perhaps there may be; for, deep within us as the ghost instinct lurks, I seem to see it being gradually atrophied by those two world-wide enemies of the imagination, the wirele...
But I’ve caught it already. I am dead — I’ve been dead for months and months.
Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock i...
Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.
Archer disliked her use of the word clever almost as much as her use of the word common; but he was beginning to fear his tendency to dwell on the things he disliked in her. After all, her point of vi...
And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.
And how can anyone give you happiness who hasn’t got it himself?
Ali znate, nas dve smo toliko različite: ona voli da bude dobra, a ja volim da budem srećna.
After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other's angles, he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpn...
It became clear to her observers that she was not quick at shifting her facial scenery. It was as though her countenance had so long been set in an expression of unchallenged superiority that the musc...
He was the kind of man who brings a sour mouth to the eating of the sweetest apple.
Yes; she’s one of the few. In my youth, Miss Jackson rejoined, it was considered vulgar to dress in the newest fashions; and Amy Sillerton has always told me that in Boston the rule was to put away on...
What was the use of being beautiful and attracting attention if one were perpetually doomed to relapse again into the obscure mass of the Uninvited?
To a torn heart uncomforted by human nearness a room may open almost human arms, and the being to whom no four walls mean more than any others, is, at such hours, expatriate everywhere.
Then the house had been boldly planned with a ball-room, so that, instead of squeezing through a narrow passage to get to it (as at the Chiverses') one marched solemnly down a vista of enfiladed drawi...
If love as a sentiment was the discovery of the medieval poets, love as a moral emotion might be called that of the eighteenth-century philosophers, who, for all their celebration of free unions and f...
But we’re so different, you know: she likes being good, and I like being happy. And