💬 Quotes

"If there is any happiness to be found in this world, it is in a house like this, where there is no ceremony, no form, no restraint."

"Common sense, like conscience, is a very useful guide, but it is not always a very comfortable one."

"She was sensible that she had been betrayed into a degree of openness which was likely to be followed by repentance."

"Elinor, this eldest daughter, whose understanding was equal to her mother’s, and whose heart was better, was the only one who could govern her feelings."

"He looked at it as a man looks at the ruin of his own life."

"A man of her own sort, which might have been a relief, but she thought of Frank."

"I have been staring at the fire for a long time and my eyes are tired."

"He saw himself as a ludicrous figure, acting as a pennyboy for his aunts, a oafish schoolboy to his uncle."

"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."

"I was like a creature driven and derided by vanity: and my eyes burned with anguish and anger."

"The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful."

"Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy... cities will never have rest from their evils."

"The soul of the child is the handle by which you may lift the whole life."

"Those who are best fitted to govern are those who are least eager to do so."

"The shadows of the images are all they will see, or they will mistake the objects themselves for the shadows."

"Justice is the having and doing what is one's own, and belongs to oneself."

"The world is full of perils and in all lands love is now joined with grief."

"I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."

"Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not."

"How can you sit there calm and cold, while the world is burning, and the Orcs are eating up the land?"