It is to God you answer, not to men. The shame of having your sin known to the world, should be as nothing to the shame you felt at having sinned. We have dreaded men too much, and God too little, in...
I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence.
I did not think I had been so old,' said Margaret after a pause of silence; and she turned away sighing. 'Yes!' said Mr. Bell. 'It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery o...
I am not quite the person to decide on another's gentlemanliness, Miss Hale. I mean, I don't quite understand your application of the word. But I should say that this Morison is no true man. I don't k...
He thought that I was helpless, because he saw me lonely and poor; but are not the armies of Heaven for the like of me?
By degrees they spoke of education , and the book-learning that forms one part of it; and the result was that Ruth determined to get up early all throughout the bright summer mornings, to acquire the...
When both were seated on a tuft of heather, in some high lonely place,
If she would not like to see Master Frederick and his new wife very much indeed? 'She's a Papist, Miss, isn't she?' 'I believe—oh yes, certainly!' said Margaret, a little damped for an instant at this...
What does it matter whether her husband dines in a dress–coat, or a market–coat, provided there be worth, and honesty, and a clean shirt underneath?
Well! said John Slater, after having acknowledged his nose and his likeness; I could laugh at a jest as well as e’er the best on ‘em, though it did tell agen mysel, if I were not clemming (his eyes fi...
Sorrows is more plentiful than dinners just now; I
She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.
She had a bracelet on one taper arm, which would fall down over her round wrist. Mr. Thornton watched the replacing of this troublesome ornament with far more attention than he listened to her father....
Real meekness of character is called out by experience of kindness.
Or, in the triumph of the crowded procession, have the helpless been trampled on, instead of being gently lifted aside out of the roadway of the conqueror, whom they have no power to accompany on his...
Of all trite, worn-out, hollow mockeries of comfort that were ever uttered by people who will not take the trouble of sympathising with others, the one I dislike the most is the exhortation not to gri...
O, it ended in my having nothing to say, when I sat down to write. But sometimes, when I get hold of a book, I wonder why I let such a poor reason stop me. It does not others.
Nadie me ama, sólo me quieres tú, madre
Margaret opened the door and went in with the straight, fearless, dignified presence habitual to her. She felt no awkwardness; she had too much of society for that. Here was a person come on business...
It would have been something gained to her own self-respect, if she had learnt that he was not then, as she felt him to be now, cold and egotistical, caring for no one and nothing but what related to...