Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.
Don’t suppose that I think you are right, Tom, or that I bow to your will. I despise the feelings you have shown in speaking to Philip – I detest your insulting unmanly allusions to his deformity. You...
But that Herschel, for example, who broke the barriers of the heavens— did he not once play a provincial church-organ, and give music-lessons to stumbling pianists? Each of those Shining Ones had to w...
But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.
And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.
Ah, my child, you will have real troubles to fret about by and by, is the consolation we have almost all of us had administered to us in our childhood, and have repeated to other children since we hav...
I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building.
There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
Folks as have no mind to be o’ use have allays the luck to be out o’ the road when there’s anything to be done.
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves:
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 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...
The growth of higher feeling within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength. We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than a painter or a musician can...
That was an evil terror---- an ugly inmate to have found a nestling-place in Godfrey's kindly disposition; but no disposition is a security from evil wishes to a man whose happiness hangs on duplicity...
Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another
She could make dream-worlds of her own – but no dream-world would satisfy her now. She wanted some explanation of this hard, real life: the unhappy-looking father seated at the dull breakfast-table; t...
Poor Maggie sat down again, with the music all chased out of her soul, and the seven small demons all in again.