💬 Quotes

"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."

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate:"

"When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, / I all alone beweep my outcast state,"

"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / I summon up remembrance of things past,"

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds / Admit impediments. Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds,"

"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; / Coral is far more red than her lips' red:"

"Two loves I have of comfort and despair, / Which like two spirits do suggest me still:"

"I know myself, but that's all."

"To the peasants in whom continual bodily labour has produced heavy massiveness of intellect, satisfaction is a double-edged thing, of which long privation is not the least bitter component."