That is the bitterest of all, – to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.
Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.
Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.
There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.
The devil tempts us not – ’tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.
In high vengeance there is noble scorn.
But certain winds will make men’s temper bad.
I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.
The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.
Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.
It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.
It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent – like a carrier pigeon.
When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism – the passing over the threshold of pain and grief and anguish to claim a new state of being.
Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.
What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?
Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.
How oft review; each finding, like a friend, Something to blame, and something to commend.
All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony.