Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of in...
How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O, the cruelty of putting me into this ill-conceived world! I was capable of much...
Good, better, bestNever let it rest,
War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.
Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be It exacts a full look at the Worst.
I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
To be lectured because the lecturer saw her in the cold morning light of open-shuttered disillusion was exasperating.
There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
The pale lunar touches which make beauties of hags lent divinity to this face, already beautiful.
That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times.
She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.
She looked towards the western sky, which was now aglow like some vast foundry wherein new worlds were cast
Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.
O, how I wish I had never seen him! Loving is misery for women always.
Misfortune is a fine opiate to personal terror.
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?Yes.All like ours?I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted...
Clare could bear this no longer. His eyes were full of tears, which seemed like drops of molten lead. He bade a quick good-night to these sincere and simple souls whom he loved so well; who knew neith...
But time is short, and science is infinite...
Always wanting another man than your own.