I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . ... Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.
I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.
We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
Your trouble's easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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