Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
The first condition of human goodness is something to love the second something to revere.
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement much disputation and yet more personal liking.
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining after dreamy music that died away and would not come near...
While the heart beats, bruise it--it is your only opportunity
What's broke can never be whole again.
What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!
We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.
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...
People talk about evidence as if it could really be weighed in scales by a blind Justice.
Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or fo...
It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.
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 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 had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.