The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
Who with repentance is not satisfied, is not of heaven, nor earth.
When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't cond...
To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.
There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.
The story can be told without many words.
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good t...
That was the way with Casaubon's hard intellectual labours. Their most characteristic result was not the 'Key to all Mythologies', but a morbid consciousness that others did not give him the place whi...
Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy. As if a man coul...
So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood. Doubtless that...
She says, he is a great soul.—A great bladder for dried peas to rattle in! said Mrs. Cadwallader.
Poor Maggie sat down again, with the music all chased out of her soul, and the seven small demons all in again.
Our deeds determine us, as long as we determine our deeds
No one knew where wandering men had their homes or their origin; and how was a man to be explained unless you at least knew somebody who knew his father and mother?
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
Maggie in her crude form, with her hair down her back, and altogether in a state of dubious promise, was a most undesirable niece; but now she was capable of being at once ornamental and useful.
It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self—never to...
It is an old story, that men sell themselves to the tempter, and sign a bond with their blood, because it is only to take effect at a distant day; then rush on to snatch the cup their souls thirst aft...
I've always mistrusted that sort o' learning as leaves folks foolish and unreasonable about business.
I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me.