Not at all, said Dorothea, with the most open kindness. I like you very much.Will was not quite contented, thinking that he would apparently have been of more importance if he had been disliked. He sa...
Her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the...
Those who trust us educate us.
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?
We cannot help the way in which people speak of us . . .
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind—impetuous, arm-blooded, leonin...
Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
The brethren sometimes err in measuring the Divine love by the sinner's knowledge.
The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.
Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like feeling obligated to look serious, and he centers his doubts on what people expect of a clergyman.
Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.
We learn to restrain ourselves as we get older. We keep apart when we have quarrelled, express ourselves in well-bred phrases, and in this way preserve a dignified alienation, showing much firmness on...
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.
In bitter manuscript remarks on other men's notions about solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on.