I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
Our words have wings but fly not where we would.
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
'Tis what I love determines how I love.
Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly.
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her— that all heaven, though it were crowded with spirits watching them, must be on her side.
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
Best friend my well-spring in the wilderness!
Blessed is the man who having nothing to say refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
But we are frightened at much that is not strictly conceivable.
The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
Tom had never found any difficulty in discerning a pointer from a setter, when once he had been told the distinction, and his perceptive powers were not at all deficient. I fancy they were quite as st...
Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary.