Mrs. Gibson, it is true, was ready to go over the ground as many times as any one liked; but her words were always like ready-made clothes, and never fitted individual thoughts.
Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good.
MEN AND GENTLEMEN 'Old and young, boy, let 'em all eat, I have it; Let 'em have ten tire of teeth a-piece, I care not.' ROLLO, DUKE OF NORMANDY.
It might, or it might not. There's two opinons to go settling that point. But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin b...
It is right to hope for the best about everybody, and not to expect the worst. This sounds like a truism, but it has comforted me before now, and some day you'll find it useful. One has always to try...
It is not right to anticipate evil, and to be always looking forward with an apprehensive spirit; but I think grief is a two–edged sword, it cuts both ways; the memory of one loss is the anticipation...
I should have hoped to have trained him, my lady, to understand the rules of discretion.Trained! Train a barn-door fowl to be a pheasant, Mr. Horner! That would be the easier task. But you did right t...
I read for the same reason that I ate or drank; because it was a real craving of nature. I wrote on the same principle as I spoke—out of the impulse and feelings of the mind; nor could I help it, for...
But ne'er mind. We're but where we was; and I'll break stones on th' road afore I let these little uns clem.
But it was no smiling matter to Margaret. She attended to what Mr. Bell was saying. Her thoughts ran upon the Idea, before entertained, but which now had assumed the strength of a conviction, that Mr....
All sorts of thoughts cross one's mind—it depends upon whether one gives them harbour and encouragement
Still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love.
Song of the miller who lived by the river Dee:— 'I care for nobody—Nobody cares for me.
Seemed as if she could dream her life away in such luxury of pensiveness, in which she made her present all in all, from not daring to think of the past, or wishing to contemplate the future. But the...
Put in yo'r pipe, and smoke it,
My drawers, to string myself up, as it were; and I was so taken up with what I was about that I was quite startled when I heard the rain beating against the window-panes.
Friends,
Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life. My theory is a sort of parody on the maxim of Get money, my son, honestly if you can; but get money. My precept is,...
They were a motley assembly, each with some cause for anxiety stirring at his heart; though, after all, that is saying little or nothing, for we are all of us in the same predicament through life; eac...
Should you have liked your sister to have been noticed by a grocer's assistant for doing so?In the first place, as it is not many years since I myself was a draper's assistant, the mere circumstance o...