Non era stata mia intenzione amarlo, e avevo fatto di tutto per estirpare dal mio animo i germi dell’amore che vi avevo scovato; e ora, non appena l’avevo rivisto, essi risorgevano spontaneamente più forti e...

Your dress is thin, you have been dancing, you are heated.” “Always preaching,” retorted she; “always coddling and admonishing.” The answer Dr. John would have given did not come; that his heart was hurt became...

Whatever my powers–feminine or the contrary–God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

I’m a universal patriot…my country is the world.

Most true is it that ‘beauty is in the eye of the gazer.’ My master’s colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth, — all energy,...

Milton’s Eve! Milton’s Eve! … Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not … I would beg to remind him that the first men of the earth were Titans, and...

And your will shall decide your destiny,” he said: “I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of all my possessions.” You play a farce, which I merely laugh at.” I ask you...

Anybody may blame me who likes, when I add further, that, now and then, when I took a walk by myself in the grounds; when I went down to the gates and looked through them...

I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a...

A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth

Human feelings are queer things — I am much happier — black-leading the stove’s — making the beds and sweeping the floors at home, than I should be living like a fine lady anywhere else.

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me.

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the sorrow and the sorrow purify the genius? Together, will they not be like...

There are certain natures of which the mutual influence is such, that the more they say, the more they have to say. For these out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion, amalgamation.

I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my sensations to order; and it was wonderful how I got...

Thoughtful for Winter’s future sorrow,Its gloom and scarcity;Prescient to-day, of want to-morrow,Toiled quiet Memory.’Tis she that from each transient pleasureExtracts a lasting good;’Tis she that finds, in summer, treasureTo serve for winter’s food.And when Youth’s...

I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste.

I had not seen “Pride and Prejudice,” till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully...

The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above all, the splash of the shower-bath I had liberally bestowed,...

I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they...

I do not think the sunny youth of either will prove the forerunner of stormy age. I think it is deemed good that you two should live in peace and be happy – not as...

I used to rush into strange dreams at night: dreams many-coloured, agitated, full of the ideal, the stirring, the stormy–dreams where, amidst unusual scenes, charged with adventure, with agitating risk and romantic chance, I still...

Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.