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...
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
It's puzzling work, talking is.
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.
Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of life, on their faith in the Invisible - nay, on the sense that their pa...
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
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...
Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.
Our deeds determine us, as long as we determine our deeds
Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.
Life is measured by the rapidity of change the succession of influences that modify the being.
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.
She opened her curtains, and looked out towards the bit of road that lay in view, with fields beyond outside the entrance-gates. On the road there was a man with a bundle on his back and a woman carry...
Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.