The only reasonable thing was to accept the good of men and be patient with their faults. The words of the dying God crossed his memory: Forgive them, for they know not what they do.
The faculty for myth is innate in the human race. It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the career of those who have at all distinguished themselves from their fellow...
The disadvantages and dangers of the author’s calling are offset by an advantage so great as to make all its difficulties, disappointments, and maybe hardships, unimportant...Nothing befalls him that...
She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.Waddington, smiling, translated the question.She says I’m good.As if a woman ever loved a man for his virt...
People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.Didn't you mean them?At the moment.
Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.~Waddington
Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.
It is quite as difficult to fit one's practice to one's precepts as to fit one's precepts to one's practice. Most people act in one way and preach in another. When the fact is brought to their notice,...
It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.
It is a riddle which shares with the universe the merit of having no answer.
In schools the rather stupid boys who work always do better than the clever boy who's idle, but when the clever boy works – why then, he does what you've done this term.
I'm afraid it sounds very rude, but I hope from the bottom of my heart that I shall never set eyes on any of you again.'pg 193
I suppose it had never struck him that, Ischia, which he looked at every evening to see what the weather would be like the next day, or Vesuvius, pearly in the dawn, had anything to do with him at all...
I respect him. He has brains and character; and that, I may tell you, is a very unusual combination. I don't suppose you know what he is doing here, because I don't think he's very expansive with you....
I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such...
I have noticed that when I am most serious people are apt to laugh at me, and indeed when after a lapse of time I have read passages that I wrote from the fullness of my heart I have been tempted to l...
I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change...
I always found Dickens very coarse. I don't want to read about people who drop their aitches.
How the gods must have chuckled when they added Hope to the evils with which they filled Pandora's box, for they knew very well that this was the cruellest evil of them all, since it is Hope that lure...