148 quotes found
“Pain is no evil,Unless it conquers us.”
“Fools! who fancy Christ mistaken;Man a tool to buy and sell;Earth a failure, God-forsaken,Anteroom of Hell.”
“In the light of fuller day,Of purer science, holier laws.”
“Clear and cool, clear and cool,By laughing shallow, and dreaming pool.”
“When all the world is young, lad,And all the trees are green;And every goose a swan, lad,And every lass a queen;Then hey for boot and horse, lad,And round the world away;Young blood must have its c...”
“When all the world is old, lad,And all the trees are brown;And all the sport is stale, lad,And all the wheels run down; Creep home, and take your place there, The spent and maimed among:—God grant ...”
“[A] man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.”
“And I am very ugly. I am the ugliest fairy in the world; and I shall be, till people behave themselves as they ought to do. And then I shall grow as handsome as my sister, who is the loveliest fair...”
