“It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.”
“Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet”
“Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?”
“To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.”
“But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.”
“You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.”
“Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.”
“She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.”
“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.”
“The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.”
“There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.”
“For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.”
“Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?”
“Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.”
“Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.”
“Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it.”
“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.”
“The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.”
“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.”
“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?”
“I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.”
“The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.”
“There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but -- a hatred of all injury.”
“Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.”
“But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.”
“Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.”
“To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.”
“When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.”
“A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.”
“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.”