We're like childer, ever wanting what we han not got.
Though it may take much suffering to kill the able-bodied and effective members of society, it does take much to reduce them to worn, listless, diseased creatures, who thenceforward crawl through lif...
The fever was (as it usually is in Manchester) of a low, putrid, typhoid kind; brought on by miserable living, filthy neighbourhood, and great depression of mind and body. It is virulent, malignant, a...
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....
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.
No, pussy!’ said I, ‘if you have any conscience you ought not to expect that!
Miserably disturbed!' that is not strong enough. He was haunted by the remembrance of the handsome young man, with whom she stood in an attitude of such familiar confidence; and the remembrance shot t...
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...
Looking back upon the year's accumulated heap of troubles, Margaret wondered how they had been borne. If she could have anticipated them, how she would have shrunk away and hid herself from the coming...
It’s the only way working men can get their rights, by all joining together. More the members, more chance for each one separate man having justice done him.
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...
It seems strange to think, that what gives us most hope for the future should be called Dolores, said Margaret.
If you live in Milton, you must learn to have a brave heart, Miss Hale.’‘I would do my best,’ said Margaret rather pale. ‘I do not knowwhether I am brave or not till I am tried; but I am afraid Ishoul...
If we do not reverence the past as you do in Oxford, it is because we want something which can apply to the present more directly. It is fine when the study of the past leads to a prophecy of the futu...
I had such a mother as few are blest with; a woman of strong power, and firm resolve.
I don’t mean to deny that men are troublesome in a house. I don’t judge from my own experience, for my father was neatness itself, and wiped his shoes on coming in as carefully as any woman; but stil...
I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence.
I do try to say, God’s will be done, sir, said the Squire, looking up at Mr. Gibson for the first time, and speaking with more life in his voice; but it’s harder to be resigned than happy people think...