He went along the crowded streets mechanically, winding in and out among the people, but never seeing them,—almost sick with longing for that one half-hour—that one brief space of time when she clung...
He was lashing himself again into an impotent rage, painful to a son to witness
God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. We may ignore our own dependence, or refuse to acknowledge that others depend upon us in more respects than the payment of weekly wages; but the...
For sure, th' world is in a confusion that passes me or any other man to understand; it needs fettling, and who's to fettle it, if it's as yon folks say, and there's nought but what we see?
Every talent, every feeling, every acquirement; nay, even every tendency towards virtue, was used up as materials for fireworks; the hidden, sacred fire, exhausted itself in sparkle and crackle. They...
By and by they'll find out, tyrants makes liars.
But, surely, if the mind is too long directed to one object only, it will get stiff and rigid, and unable to take in many interests,
But, east or west wind, I suppose this man comes.''Oh, mamma, that shows you never saw Mr. Thornton. He looks like a person who would enjoy battling with every adverse thing he could meet with—enemies...
But she had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her own life, and what she had done with it; and she tried to settle that most difficult problem for wome...
But Margaret was at an age when any apprehension, not absolutely based on a knowledge of facts, is easily banished for a time by a bright sunny day, or some happy outward circumstance. And when the br...
But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong.
But I belong to Teutonic blood; it is little mingled in this part of England to what it is in others; we retain much of their language; we retain more of their spirit; we do not look upon life as a ti...
As far as she could see, her life was ordained to be lonely, and she must subdue her nature to her life, and, if possible, bring the two into harmony. When she could employ herself in fiction, all was...
And flowering all the year round, especially at Christmas—make your picture complete,' said he. 'No,
And besides, in the matter of friendship, I have observed that the disappointment here arises chiefly, from liking our friends too well, or thinking of them too highly, but rather from an over-estima...
All beautiful scriptures came into her mind. 'They rest from their labours.' 'The weary are at rest.' 'He giveth His beloved sleep.
A man, as one of them observed to me once, is so in the way in the house!
The ladies were so dull - oh so dull ! It reminded me of our old game of each having so many nouns to introduce into a sentence...They took nouns that were signs of the things which gave evidence of w...
. . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.
But none—not the most skilful physician—can get at more than the outside of these things: the heart knows its own bitterness, and the frame its own poverty, and the mind its own struggles.