All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
Tis God gives skill, but not without men’s hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius’s violins without Antonio.
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they’re gone.
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
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