Everything is all one - that is the beginning and end with you.
Each position has its corresponding duties.
Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. She felt sure that she would have accepted the judicious Hooker, if she had been born in time...
Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humouring everybody's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humour?' said Lydgate, moving to Mr. Farebrother's side, and looking rather...
But something she yearned for by which her life might be filled with action at once rational and ardent; and since the time was gone by for guiding visions and spiritual directors, since prayer height...
But no story is the same to us after a lapse of time—or rather, we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
But I have a belief of my own, and it comforts me...That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power again...
As to his religious notions—why, as Voltaire said, incantations will destroy a flock of sheep if administered with a certain quantity of arsenic.
A perfectly sane intellect is hardly at home in this insane world.
A man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass.
A hidden soul seemed to be flowing forth from Rosamund’s fingers, and so indeed it was, since souls live on in perpetual echoes, and to all fine expression there goes somewhere an originating activity...
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
There are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship, which a loving faith fills with happy assurance.
It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.
You must be sure of two things: you must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it...
Why should I not marry the man who loves me, if I love him? said Catherine. To her the effort was something like the leap of a woman from the deck into the lifeboat. It
Where lies the power, there let the blame lie too.Nay, power is relative; you cannot frightThe coming pest with border fortresses,Or catch your carp with subtle argument.All force is twain in one: cau...
When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder...