“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness”
23 quotes in our collection
“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness”
“Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!”
“Children use the fist until they are of the age to use the brain”
“He lives most life whoever breathes most air”
“God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, and thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, a gauntlet with a gift in it ”
“Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand”
“Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, by reiteration chiefly”
“At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction”
“World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain”
“The devil's most devilish when respectable”
“The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul”
“How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital”
“I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life ”
“Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labour done”
“If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.”
“Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death”
“God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame”
“ Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile. ”
“A woman's always younger than a man at equal years”
“What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes”