💬 Quotes

"We are creatures of habit, and it is astonishing how soon a place ceases to be strange to us if we only stay in it long enough."

"There is no man so friendless but that what he can find a worse enemy than himself if he looks around him."

"I like to be free; I'm not sure that I care to take upon myself the burden of such a debt."

"The house was strange... a dark, narrow alley with a little brick house at the end: it was a kind of metaphoric statement of what she was making of her life."

"I'm not, you know, so fond of my own opinion that I wish to drag you over to it; I only want to put you in possession of the facts."

"Deep in her soul—it was the deepest thing there—lay a belief that if a certain light should dawn, she could give herself completely."

"He would expect her to most completely be a part of his own-ness, as if she were an vessel shaped to hold his ideas."

"There is nothing so un-American as a general view."

"Methinks there is a dreadful similarity in human fates; the same voices speak to us from the past, warning us of the futility of our present desires."

"Is not the universe all bound together by mystic ties? Do not the hearts of men echo to the touches of the mysterious power that governs our destinies?"

"Fame, glory, ambition—what are ye? Phantoms of a winter's night, that vanish before the morning beam of truth."

"I am alone in the world. The last drop of the foaming cup is mine—the last inhabitant of this desolate earth."

"Alas! I have dragged through years of solitary existence, living as a ghost among the monuments of a dead world."

"Education, wealth, and the pomp of power—how vanity of vanities was stamped upon them all when the pestilence stalked through the land."

"The emotions have no temporal bounds; to see her is to think of her now as the same as she was in the spring, and as she will be in the autumn."

"Directly you get a women's mind leaning upon an old ancient subject like that, you're not safe from the finding of coincidences till doomsday."

"A choir is a choir, no doubt; but let's stick to church-work, and not turn our sacred music into a secular performance."

"The red glow of the candle fell upon her face, and made it look like an angel's, though perhaps an angel a trifle too terrestrial."

"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."

"To everything, human beings are a prey; but especially to the bitter sweetness of their own desires."