And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.
Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.
You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
When it's for each other that people give things up theydon't miss them
Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.
She was afraid,' said Mrs. Bread, very confidently; 'she has always been afraid, or at least for a long time. That was the real trouble, sir. She was like a fair peach, I may say, with just one little...
Our friend was slightly nervous; that went with his character as a student of fine prose, went with the artist’s general disposition to vibrate
My father ain't in Europe; my father's in a better place than Europe. Winterbourne imagined for a moment that this was the manner in which the child had been taught to intimate that Mr. Miller had bee...
Madame de Cintre's face had, to Newman's eye, a range of expression as delightfully vast as the wind-streaked, cloud-flecked distance on a Western prairie. But her mother's white, intense, respectable...
Living as he now lived was like reading a good book in a poor translation...
It wouldn’t have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything.
It would have been absurd of him to trace into ramifications the effect of the ribbon from which Miss Gostrey’s trinket depended, had he not for the hour, at the best, been so given over to uncontroll...
It was the truth, vivid and monstrous, that all the while he had waited the wait was itself his portion.
If he was not personally loud, however, he was deep, and during these closing days of the Roman May he knew a complacency that matched with slow irregular walks under the pines of the Villa Borghese,...
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
I know at least what I am,' he simply went on; 'the other side of the medal's clear enough. I've not been edifying--I believe I'm thought in a hundred quarters to have been barely decent. I've followe...
Her tact had to reckon with the Atlantic Ocean, the General Post-Office and the extravagant curve of the globe.
Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
He had come abroad to enjoy the Flemish painters and all others; but what fair-tressed saint of Van Eyck or Memling was so interesting a figure as Madame de Mauves?
Everything he wanted was comprised moreover in a single boon--the common unattainable art of taking things as they came. He appeared to himself to have given his best years to an active appreciation o...