49 quotes found
“Now or never was the time.”
“Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.”
“God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.”
“Human nature is the same in all professions.”
“This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.”
“Pain and pleasure like light and darkness succeed each other.”
“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.”
“We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them”
“If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;--and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains,--then ...”
“all I can say of the matter, isThat he has either a pumkin for his heador a pippin for his heart,and whenever he is dissected 'twill be found so.”
“I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and of what kind of a mortal I am, by the one, would give you ...”
“Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a ...”
“I won't go about to argue the point with you,'tis so,and I am persuaded of it, madam, as much as can be, "That both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in ...”
“I begin with writing the first sentenceand trusting to Almighty God for the second.”
“Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.”
“I am this month one whole year older than I was this time twelve-month; and having got, as you perceive, almost into the middle of my fourth volumeand no farther than to my first day's life'tis dem...”
“It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every hour of it miserably in love with some one....”
“I could wish to spy the nakedness of their hearts, and through the different disguises of customs, climates, and religion, find out what is good in them, to fashion my own by. It is for this reason...”
“Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.”
“Cursed luck! said he, biting his lip as he shut the door, for man to be master of one of the finest chains of reasoning in nature, and have a wife at the same time with such a head-piece, that he c...”
“Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave it is not in his nature. ”
“Only the brave know how to forgive it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. ”
“In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.”
“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”
“Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.”
