Some folk want their luck buttered. |
The bower we shrined to Tennyson, / Gentlemen, / Is roof-wrecked; damps there drip upon / Sagged seats, the creeper-nails are rust,/ The spider is sole denizen. |
The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom. |
The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything. |
The long, laborious road, dry, empty, and white. It was quite open to the heath on each side, and bisected that vast dark surface like the parting-line on a head of black hair, diminishing and bending away on the furthest horizon. |
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him |
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years. |
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible |
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. |
The social molds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to real star patterns |
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. |
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. |
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. |
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job. |
Their lives were ruined,he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling . . . |