Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
A man must have something to grumble about; and if he cant complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.
Farewell to Thee! But not farewell To all my fondest thoughts of Thee; Within my heart they still shall dwell And they shall cheer and comfort me.
Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness.
All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.
Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark’s song?
She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not – at least, I firmly believed I did not.
I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup.
You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.
I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.
When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.
I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I – of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.
If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.
My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will.
There is such a thing as looking through a person’s eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another’s soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.
No one can be happy in eternal solitude.
The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband’s greatest torments.
God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.
There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
If ever I am a mother I will zealously strive against this crime of over- indulgence. I can hardly give it a milder name when I think of the evils it brings.