All that he gained in return for his sixpenny omnibus ride, was a more vivid conviction that there never was, never could be, any one like Margaret; that she did not love him and never would; but that...
All beautiful scriptures came into her mind. 'They rest from their labours.' 'The weary are at rest.' 'He giveth His beloved sleep.
A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.
A few moments may change our character for life, by giving a totally different direction to our aims and energies.
A Yorkshireman once said to me, ‘My county folk are all alike. Their first thought is how to resist. Why! I myself, if I hear a man say it is a fine day, catch myself trying to find out that it is no...
. . 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.
Begin to understand now what heaven must be—and, oh! the grandeur and repose of the words—The same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. Everlasting! From everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God. That
When God will not use thee in one kind, yet He will in another. A soul that desires to serve and honour Him shall never want opportunity to do it; nor must thou so limit the Holy One of Israel as to t...
What does it signify how we dress here at Cranford, where everybody knows us? And if they go from home, their reason is equally cogent, What does it signify how we dress here, where nobody knows us?
Trust in that veiled hand, which leads None by the path that he would go; And always be for change prepared, For the world's law is ebb and flow.' FROM THE ARABIC.
To begin with the old rigmarole of childhood. In a country there was a shire, and in that shire there was a town, and in that town there was a house, and in that house there was a room, and in that ro...
The visit promised to be more honorable than agreeable, and Maggie almost wished herself at home again.
The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Or, in the triumph of the crowded procession, have the helpless been trampled on, inst...
The Jews, or Mohammedans (I forget which), believe that there is one little bone of our body,—one of the vertebrae, if I remember rightly,—which will never decay and turn to dust, but will lie incorru...
So piety demanded a new bonnet, or a new gown; and was barely satisfied with an Easter pair of gloves.
Nothing had been the same; and this slight, all-pervading instability, had given her greater pain than if all had been too entirely changed for her to recognise it. I begin to understand now what heav...
It is well for us that we live at the present time, when everybody is logical and consistent.
It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious. I take changes in all I see as a matter of course. The inst...
I was used To sleep at nights as sweetly as a child,— Now if the wind blew rough, it made me start, And think of my poor boy tossing about Upon the roaring seas. And then I seemed To feel that it...
I suppose you are not musical,' said Fanny, 'as I see no piano.''I am fond of hearing good music; I cannot play well myself; and papa and mamma don't care much about it; so we sold our old piano when...