132 quotes found
“Sunlight is painting.”
“Moonlight is sculpture.”
“Be it sin or no, I hate the man!”
“Life is made up of marble and mud.”
“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
“Do anything, save to lie down and die!”
“Angels do not toil, but let their good works grow out of them.”
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the h”
“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we ...”
“Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.”
“...the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the space of a single holiday, they appea...”
“The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds--the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and s...”
“Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.”
“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
“Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and pers...”
“Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.”
“Death should take me while I am in the mood.”
“Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!”
“He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature man had better die at once than utterly to relinquish,-- that we are not do...”
“Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated.”
“Herman Melville came to see me at the Consulate, looking much as he used to do (a little paler, and perhaps a little sadder), in a rough outside coat, and with his characteristic gravity and reserv...”
“When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived. When, however, it forms its judgment, as it usually does, on the intuitions of its great and warm...”
“There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart. The heart, m...”
“It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge;...”
“The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.”
“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
