The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it oftensubsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm....
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can b...
She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.
People talk about evidence as if it could really be weighed in scales by a blind Justice.
If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.
I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.
I suppose it's the name: there's a deal in the name of a tune.
I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.
I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest — I mean tha...
I don't mind [being ugly], do you?
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
Favourable Chance, I fancy, is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law they believe in. Let even a polished man of these days get into a position he is ashamed to avow...
College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t’ hold the stuff as is poured into ‘em.
After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each...
It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good and we must hunger for them.
Men's men: be they gentle or simple they're much of a muchness.
Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions pass no criticisms.
Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and...