What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --"Wanda
Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.
Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as they appear. My heroes and heroines I want not extreme types, all good or all bad; but human, mortal--partly good, partly bad. Realism I need. Pure mental abstractions have no significance for me.
Great men have always had dogs.
Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.
A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.
Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.
The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.
If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.
Great men always have dogs.
Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word.
The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.
In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.
Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda
The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.
Excess always carries its own retribution.
Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.
Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.
I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.
Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.
It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.
The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
Youth without faith is a day without sun.
Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.
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