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A good thing can't be cruel. - [Cruelty] A loving heart is the truest wisdom. - [Affection] A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel. - [Mob] A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. - [Humanity] Alas! how few of nature's faces there are to gladden us with their beauty! The cares and sorrows and hungerings of the world change them as they change hearts; and it is only when those passions sleep, and have lost their hold forever, that the troubled clouds pass off, and leave heaven's surface clear. - [Face] An idea, like a ghost (according to the common notion of ghosts), must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. - [Ideas] Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation. - [Finance] Credit is a system whereby a person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. - [Credit] Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on the earth in the night season, and melt away with the first beam of the sun which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world. - [Dreams] He assigned it to regions more than tropical. - [Proverbs] He did each single thing as if he did nothing else. - [Deeds] He would make a lovely corpse. - [Death] He'd make a lovely corpse. - [Death] Hours are golden links--God's tokens reaching heaven. - [Hours] I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that--as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. - [Christmas] I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. - [Childhood : Children] I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. - in a speech at a Liverpool Banquet [Literature] I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood. - [Blood] I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. - [Christmas] If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of the true metal and bear the stamp of heaven. - [Home] In the destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power and his dark path becomes a way of light to heaven. - [Death] In the exhaustless catalogue of Heaven's mercies to mankind, the power we have of finding some germs of comfort in the hardest trials must ever occupy the foremost place; not only because it supports and upholds us when we most require to be sustained, but because in this source of consolation there is something, we have reason to believe, of the Divine Spirit; something of that goodness which detects, amidst our own evil doings, a redeeming quality; something, which even in our fallen nature, we possess in common with the angels; which had its being in the old time when they trod the earth, and linger on it yet in pity. - [Comfort] In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. - [Injustice] Indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars. - [Cynicism] It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments. - [Children] Displaying page 1 of 7 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7
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