As the child's mind was growing into knowledge, his mind was growing into memory: as her life unfolded, his soul, long stupefied in a cold, narrow prison, was unfolding too, and trembling gradually in...
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women.
And Casaubon had done a wrong to Dorothea in marrying her. A man was bound to know himself better than that, and if he chose to grow grey crunching bones in a cavern, he had no business to be luring a...
Also, the high standard held up to the public mind by the College of which which gave its peculiar sanction to the expensive and highly rarefied medical instruction obtained by graduates of Oxford and...
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class. There is correct English: that is not slang. I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest sl...
A man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass.
A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.
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...
Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
There are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship, which a loving faith fills with happy assurance.
Religious feeling; but in Miss Brooke's case, religion alone would have determined it; and Celia mildly acquiesced in all her sister's sentiments, only infusing them with that common-sense which is ab...
Eh, there's trouble i' this world, and there's things as we can niver make out the rights on. And all we've got to do is to trusten - Master Marner, to do the right thing as fur as we know, and to tru...
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
When we are treated well, we naturally begin to think that we are not altogether unmeritous, and that it is only just we should treat ourselves well, and not mar our own good fortune.
When a man turns a blessing from his door, it falls to them as take it in.
When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.
When a man had married into a family where there was a whole litter of women, he might have plenty to put up with if he chose. But Mr. Tulliver did not choose.
When a conversation has taken a wrong turn for us, we only get farther and farther into the swamp of awkwardness.