I always want to know the things one shouldn't do.So as to do them? asked her aunt.So as to choose. said Isabel
He's the victim of a critical age; he has ceased to believe in himself and he doesn't know what to believe in.
He was allying himself to science, for what was science but the absence of prejudice backed by the presence of money? His life would be full of machinery, which was the antidote to superstition ...
A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.
He had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
And the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.
Be not afraid of life believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.
It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
Ideas are, in truth, force.
Who was she, what was she that she should hold herself superior? What view of life, what design upon fate, what conception of happiness, had she that she pretended to be larger than this large occasio...
We see our lives from our own point of view; that is the privilege of the weakest and humblest of us;
Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is de...
She often wondered indeed if she ever had been, or ever could be, intimate with anyone.
She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
Oh, said Catherine, with some eagerness, it doesn't take long to like a person—when once you begin.
Of course I was under the spell, and the wonderful part is that, even at the time, I perfectly knew I was.
Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?
Keep making the movements of life.