Liz, it’s so easy to say ‘I’m sorry.’ It costs nothing and it saves a mint of pain. Those two words are the common coin of daily life, but especially between people who love each other.
It was Wang Lung's marriage day.
I do not blame you, child, for growing up, she announced. But I teach you this: Whatever happens is always the woman’s fault.
Here was that question: Was life sad or happy? She did not mean her life or any one life, but life itself—was it sad or happy? If she but had the answer to that first question, Peony thought, then she...
God—if there is a God—would not choose one man above another or one people above another.
At the southwest corner Malvern joined its fields to that of his nearest neighbor, John MacBain. Pierce held his horse just short of the border and looked across a meadow. Part of the MacBain house ha...
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.
And comforted by his greater wisdom he fell asleep again deeply in the darkness and the stillness.
Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what were those times? Alone she raged against his cheerfulness and put herself at the mercy of he...
Is our Heaven your God, and is your God our Heaven?' she inquired.'They are one and the same,' he replied...'There is only one true God. He has many names.''Then anywhere upon the round earth, by what...
I am always moved, with grateful wonder, by the goodness of people. For the few who are prying or meanly critical, for the very few who rejoice in the grief of others, there are the thousands who are...
For the soul of man is born fresh in every child, and there is an age in every creature, unless he is debased too young, when for a time he sees clearly the difference between truth and falsehood, and...
Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do.
Even our enemies call him ‘great soul,’ and declare that they are honored in defeat by such a one.
All that had been was now no more.
I am comforted by life's stability by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge.
Wept, and in the wrinkles of old people. In the house of the Manchu Bannerman,
Thing and it could be sold for a heap of silver and sometimes
Well I know I am ugly and cannot be loved—
Now it has been said from ancient times that all women who weep may be divided into three sorts. There are those who lift up their voices and their tears flow and this may be called crying; there are...