💬 Quotes

"It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being."

"My generation is growing up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken."

"I know myself, but that is all. And `--` oh, I'm romanticly disposed."

"In this strange world, made a hopeless riddle to him, he might have been a long while bemoaning his loss, but for the change—the change that came over his heart, before he knew its bearing."

"A man does not make his own blood, and it was his own judgment that had made him an actor in that scene."

"There is pity that rests on the moral injury done to by-standers by making them the accomplices of a solemn falsehood."

"It seemed to him that the annihilation of his total past was a pettier blow than the loss of his trust."

"No child was afraid of approaching Silas: mammas traditionally reckoned him as one of the least harmful persons in the parish."

"The fierce wind that swept over the prairie blew with such a sense of human futility that Alexandra felt for the first time the nothingness of human endeavor."

"Land is the only thing that stays by you, the only thing that doesn't change."

"Miracles are not something apart from common life; they are the flower of it."

"Fortitude is the one thing that can help us, the one thing that does help us."

"To know the thoughts of men is a terrible thing; to know their desires is even worse."

"Her mind was to him a wonderful book, full of new and strange things that he had never dreamed of."

"I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who marries and brings up a large family, does more service than he who continues single and only talks of population."

"The hero fears no more than the coward; the man of the profession at forty-five is the same hero at seventy-five."

"The right of is a maxim in morals as well as in law; and whoever raises a house without a foundation must expect it to fall."

"When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?"

"Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear, till he tries them: as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look dim in the distance, every step we advance opens up a new and wider prospect."

"Our trials are all titheable; when our losses go near our heart, we can yet look down with humility, and be thankful."