It's them as take advantage that get advantage i' this world. |
It's them that takes advantage that get advantage in this world |
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress |
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. |
Kisses honeyed by oblivion. |
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down |
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. |
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. |
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing. |
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty |
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. |
Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness |
Might, could, would -they are contemptible auxiliaries. |
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. |
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us |