Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? |
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision. |
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. |
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. |
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise. |
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. |
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. |
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation. |
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness. |
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. |
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. |
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? |
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. |
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. |
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. |
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas. |
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. |
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. |
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. |
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. |