💬 Quotes

"The Spaniards had been here for three hundred years; they had built churches and planted vineyards, but they had never really changed the heart of the country."

"Old times were good because they were simple. But the new times have their own beauty, stern and difficult though it may be."

"Human beings is like that; and I reckon if you was in Africa you'd feel just the way we did."

"I see it warn't no use to argue with him; he had him and his iggoraunce pinned to a bayonet."

"The trouble with people is, they don't know enough to know what they don't know."

"It was a dreadful lonely place; and besides, it was so lonesome."

"Jim said he reckoned a man that set out to carry out a dead load of foolishness like that would have his hands full."

"A person can't ever tell what's going to happen to him in this world, and you can't believe half of what you see neither."

"I shall never forget you, dearest, and I shall try to be what you want me to be. And I'll try to be a man. You said a man must be brave and do right."

"It has been said that the Earl of Dorincourt was a hard, unyielding man; but he was very fond of his grandson."

"I am an American, but my papa was an Englishman, and so was my mamma, and I suppose I am something of both."

"He had a great many friends, because he was not afraid of people and liked them, and always expected them to like him."

"Hardship and sorrow had not embittered her; they had only made her more gentle and sympathetic with the sorrows of others."

"If you are a gentleman, you must always think of other people's feelings, and never hurt them if you can help it."

"Mad world! mad kings! mad composition!"

"Old Time the clock-setter, that bald sexton Time, Is it as he will? well then, France shall rue."

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

"He that stands upon a slippery place makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up."

"The tackle of my heart is crack'd and burn'd, And all the shrouds wherewith my life should sail Are turn'd to one dry wither'd white leaf."

"This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself."