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 are gone.
From George Eliot
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
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