It’s an uncommonly dangerous thing to be left without any padding against the shafts of disease.
It would be a poor result of all our anguish and our wrestling if we won nothing but our old selves at the end of it--if we could return to the same blind loves, the same self-confident blame, the sam...
It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly Considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through p...
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
In my opinion, legal training only makes a man more incompetent in questions that require knowledge of another kind. People talk about evidence as if it could really be weighed in scales by a blind Ju...
In books there were people who were always agreeable or tender, and delighted to do things that made one happy, and who did not show their kindness by finding fault. The world outside the books was no...
Imagination is often truer than fact, said Gwendolen, decisively, though she could no more have explained these glib words than if they had been Coptic or Etruscan. I shall be so glad to learn all abo...
If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of...
If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.
I would not creep along the coast but steerOut in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.
I thought it was all over with me, and there was nothing to try for–only things to endure.
I should never like scolding any one else so well; and that is a point to be thought of in a husband.
I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in the library at Offendene, but there is nothing readable. The leaves all stick together and smell musty. I...
I magnified, as usual, the impression any word or deed of mine could produce on others.
I don’t see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.’ ‘I think the goodness should come before he expects that.
I am not at all sure that the majority of the human race have not been ugly, and even among those lords of their kind, the British, squat figures, ill-shapen nostrils, and dingy complexions are not st...
He has got no good red blood in his body, said Sir James.No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass, and it was all semicolons and parenthesis, said Mrs. Cadwallader.
He had no longer free energy enough for spontaneous research and speculative thinking, but by the bedside of patients the direct external calls on his judgment and sympathies brought the added impulse...
For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.
Each remembered thing in the room was disenchanted, was deadened as an unlit transparency, till her wandering gaze came to the group of miniatures, and there at last she saw something which had gather...