💬 Quotes

"Tantane animis caelestibus irae?"

"Discite justitiam moniti, et non temnere divos."

"Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast."

"Neither my husband nor the slave return'd, / Being thus denied desire, they hit him home; / Long stay'd the ajax; all the while you came."

"There's nothing situate under the heaven's eye / But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky."

"He that commends me to mine own content, / Commends me to the thing I cannot get. / I to the world am like a drop of water / That in the ocean seeks another drop."

"Methinks you are my glass, and not my wife: / I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth."

"Though now this grained face of mine be hid / In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, / And all the conduits of my blood froze up, / Yet hath my night of life no memory, / My wasting lamps no fading spark left awry."

"Character is fate, said Novalis, and not less recent romances make it evident that the assertion of a new responsibility is a frequent beginning of a new mental attitude."

"Misery teaches extremes of humiliation; but he was already abased."

"Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain."

"We be only womenhood. Just as I am an outcast again, ye be outcasts too."

"May I be left and forgotten in darkness as I deserve! Be inhibited from mentioning my name to any one, and my memory to die out of men's minds."

"That she would resolutely continue to live as heretofore, did not take away the sense of dread that the departed husband and father cast over her."

"The best way to get to know about things is to do them yourself."

"Father says that people who are poor are often much nicer than people who are rich, because they have to think about other things besides money."

"It is a very sad thing to have no mother; but it is even sadder, in some ways, to have a father who is so sad that he doesn't seem to notice anything you do."

"We wanted to restore the fallen fortunes of the House of Bastable. That is why we held a council."

"If you are going to be a hero, you must expect to be uncomfortable."

"It is very hard to do good when nobody wants you to do it."