Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the...
Those who trust us educate us.
Wishes are held to be ominous; according to which belief the order of the world is so arranged that if you have an impious objection to a squint, your offspring is more likely to be born with one; als...
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
Yes! Thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty—it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it... There are few prophets in the worl...
We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of...
There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exaspe...
Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.
Dorothea, he said to himself, was for ever enthroned in his soul: no other woman could sit higher than her footstool...
A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make...
A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.
'Tis what I love determines how I love.
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action and they will have it if they cannot find it.
If I really care for you, if I try to think myself into your position and orientation, then the world is bettered by my effort at understanding and comprehension. If you respond to my effort by trying...
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories