A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
Blessed influence of one truly loving soul on another!
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.
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.
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.
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have r...
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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...
They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.
The Vicar’s talk was not always inspiriting: he had escaped being a Pharisee, but he had not escaped that low estimate of possibilities which we rather hastily arrive at as an inference from our own f...
Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.
One gets a bad habit of being unhappy.
It is just that I don’t know how I could live without the hope of her. It would be like learning to live with wooden legs.
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...
If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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...
Author describes one character's optimism as, that quiet well-being which perhaps you and I have felt on a sunny afternoon when, in our brightest youth and health, life has opened a new vista for us,...