I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.
Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.
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...
Everything comes to light, Nancy, sooner or later. When God Almighty wills it, our secrets are found out.
Dorothea was not only his wife: she was a personification of that shallow world which surrounds the appreciated or desponding author.
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 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.
Decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
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...
But very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.
You are a poem--and that is to be the best part of a poet--what makes up thepoet’s consciousness in his best moods.
What we call the 'just possible' is sometimes true and the thing we find it easier to believe is grossly false.
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....
One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.
If we had lost our own chief good, other people’s good would remain, and that is worth trying for.
If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.
I don't make myself disagreeable; it is you who find me so. Disagreeable is a word that describes your feelings and not my actions.
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.