You won't get love from a child if you don't give love.
The truth was sometimes more fatal than a lie.
It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.
It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all too soon, the very words justice, compassion,...
If the screams of all earth's living creatures were one scream of pain, surely it would shake the stars.
I was like a little boy showing off my toys, desperate to win approval.
History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.
Dalgliesh told himself that he should have remembered what, as a small boy, he had discovered about Uncle Hubert's conscience--that it operated as a warning bell and that, unlike most people, Uncle Hu...
By 1803, therefore, Mrs Bennet could be regarded as a happy woman so far as her nature allowed and had even been known to sit through a four-course dinner in the presence of Sir William and Lady Lucas...
A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
He had felt for the Gearings. But he had made a promise and it was one he knew he would have to
Dresses, some of the girls in clothes which
We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.
I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happi...
I don’t think He bargains.Oh yes He does. I may not be religious but I know my Bible. My mother saw to that. He bargains all right. But He’s supposed to he just. If He wants belief He’d better provide...
Good. I do dislike discussing wine longer than I need.
A court of law is not constituted to establish the truth.
Miss Bingley was particularly anxious at the time not to leave the capital. Her pursuit of a widowed peer of great wealth was entering a most hopeful phase. Admittedly without his peerage and his mone...
Ridiculous,
Reinforced my initial prejudice against what, with the intolerance of youth, I thought of as a type.