His works (taken together) are almost like a new edition of human nature. |
His worst is better than any other person's best. |
Honesty is one part eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves. |
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. |
I conceive that words are like money, not the worse for being common, but that it is the stamp of custom alone that gives them circulation or value. |
I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck. |
I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London. |
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began. |
I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about |
I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about |
I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it. |
I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home. |
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home |
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power. |
If from the top of a long cold barren hill I hear the distant whistle of a thrush which seems to come up from some warm woody shelter beyond the edge of the hill, this sound coming faint over the rocks with a mingled feeling of strangeness and joy, the idea of the place about me, and the imaginary one beyond will all be combined together in such a manner in my mind as to become inseparable. |