The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.
Curiosity and timidity fought a long battle in his heart.
Alexander Smollett, master; David Livesey, ship's doctor; Abraham Gray, carpenter's mate; John Trelawney, owner; John Hunter and Richard Joyce, owner's servants, landsmen--being all that is left faith...
Ah, there, said Morgan, that comed of sp'iling Bibles.That comes--as you call it--of being arrant asses, retorted the doctor.
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of hi...
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer is to keep your soul alive.
I have resolved that from this day on I will do all the business I can honestly have all the fun I can reasonably do all the good I can willingly and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes.
It is a phrase that may well perplex a poor modern, girt about on every side by clocks and chimes...For we are all so busy, and have so many far-off projects to realise, and castles in the fire to tur...
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
The rain is falling all around,It falls on field and tree,It rains on the umbrellas here,And on the ships at sea.
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy fitting what I saw with appropriate words; when I sat by the roadside, I would either read or a pencil...
I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself could be housed in separate identities life would be relieved of al...
Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labour.
Saints are sinners who kept on going.
I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech:...