Inspiration Quotes, page 100

“In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.”

“What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, gentle, beautiful, pleasant, serene, and joyful? O yes!”

“I do not know the American gentleman—God forgive me for putting two such words together.”

“You are in every line I have ever read.”

“She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived.”

“I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much.”

“There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.”

“There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.”

“I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.”

“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”

“One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of the earth.”

“Grief never mends broken bones.”

“I hope you care to be recalled to life?”

“The meagre lighthouse, all in white and haunting the seaboard as if it were the ghost of an edifice that once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.”

“Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise.”

“Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.”

“The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.”

“With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing.”

“The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.”

“The change was made in me; the thing was done. Well or ill done, excusably or inexcusably, it was done.”

“Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.”

“And O, there are days in this life worth life and worth death.”

“When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.”

“Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.”

“Yes. He is quite a good fellow — nobody's enemy but his own.”

“Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.”

“The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground.”

“Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses — a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.”

“It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold.”

“Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.”