It's astonishing how well the worse reason looks when you try to make it appear the better.
I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.
I haven't done anything--yet.
I am yours, for time and eternity--time and eternity.
She liked the words; they satisfied her famine for phrases.
NoMarch felt the forces of fate closing about him and pushing him to a decision. He feebly fought them off till he could have another look at the flat. Then, baked and subdued still more by the unexpe...
He parted from him on the usual terms outwardly, but he felt obscurely abused by Fulkerson in regard to the Dryfooses, father and son. He did not know but Fulkerson had taken an advantage of him in al...
Forest to their fields of corn and tobacco on the fertile slopes and rich bottom-lands. The
Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
Why, Alma, whispered the mother, who in the world can it be at this time of night? You don't suppose he—Well, I'm not going to the door, anyhow, mother, I don't care who it is; and, of course, he woul...
The conqueror is regarded with awe the wise man commands our respect but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
That's what makes me really think that women can never amount to anything in art. They keep all their appointments, and fulfil all their duties just as if they didn't know anything about art.
I hope the time is coming when not only the artist, but the common, average man, who always 'has the standard of the arts in his power,' will have also the courage to apply it, and will reject the ide...
There's always something to say on both sides, even when one's a wrong side. That's what makes it all so tiresome-makes you wish you were dead. Take the right side and stick to that.
It's very odd...that some values should have this peculiarity of shrinking. You never hear of values in a picture shrinking; but rents, stocks, real estate--all those values shrink abominably.
I fancy you may tell the truth about yourself. But
No, no. I understand that. And I quite agree with you. But you know I've always contended that the affections could be made to combine pleasure and profit. I wouldn't have a man marry for money,--that...
She was herself in that moment of life when, to the middle-aged observer, at least, a woman's looks have a charm which is wanting to her earlier bloom. By that time her character has wrought itself mo...
Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
…in Altruria every one works with his hands, so that the hard work shall not all fall to any one class; and this manual labor of each is sufficient to keep the body in health, as well as to earn a liv...