Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
Some folk want their luck buttered.
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
All romances end at marriage.
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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