“A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.”
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“I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.”
“Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies.”
“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”
“Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.”
“Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.”
“Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.”
“Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.”
“If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.”
“I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.”
“There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions--does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.”
“When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think even the noise of streets harmonious, and are ready to hug the tradesman who is wrapping up our change.”
“It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on end, trembling and turning hot and cold at only a look from one woman out of all the rest i' the world. It's a mystery we can give no account of.”
“When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope.”
“It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.”
“I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.”
“I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.”
“You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.”
“I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.”
“A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.”