A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.
Why, they took nouns that were signs of things which gave evidence of wealth,—housekeepers, under-gardeners, extent of glass, valuable lace, diamonds, and all such things; and each one formed her spee...
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,...
She lay with her face to the wall, muttering low, but muttering always: Alas! alas! what is done in youth can never be undone in age! what is done in youth can never be undone in age!
Pooh! away with love! Nay, my dear, we loved each other so dearly we should never have been happy with any one else; but that's a different thing. People aren't like what they were when we were young....
People admire talent, and talk about their admiration. But they value common sense without talking about it, and often without knowing it.
Oh!s little bird told us,' said Miss Browning. Molly knew that little bird from her childhood, and had always hated it, and longed to wring its neck. Why could not people speak out and say that they d...
Oh! sad is the night-time, The night-time of sorrow, When through the deep gloom, we catch but the boom Of the waves that may whelm us to-morrow.
Oh dear! A drunken infidel weaver! said Mr. Hale to himself.
Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.
No one knows till they have tried, what power of bearing lies in them.
Nay, nay! said the Squire. It’s not so easy to break one’s heart. Sometimes I’ve wished it were. But one has to go on living—‘all the appointed days,’ as is said in the Bible.
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used-not on behalf of ourselves,
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used-not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.
Let us go on and see little Susan, said Margaret, drawing her companion up a grassy road-way, leading under the shadow of a forest glade. With all my heart, though I have not an idea who little Susan...
La lealtad y la obediencia a la sabiduría y la justicia están bien; pero es aún mejor desafiar el poder arbitrario ejercido de forma injusta y cruel, no en nuestra propia defensa sino en la de otros m...
It was towards the end of February, in that year, and a bitter black frost had lasted for many weeks. The keen east wind had long since swept the streets clean, though in a gusty day the dust would ri...
I shall never marry.' 'Nonsense, and double nonsense! Why,
I say Gibson, we're old friends, and you're a fool if you take anything I say as an offense. Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I thin...
I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me - for I shall never marry; and I anticipate cares and sorrows just as if I we...