Occupation: Novelist Birth: March 29, 1831 Death: March 10, 1919
Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it..
Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment..
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them..
To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves..
I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life..
youth is always sure that change must mean something better..
All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the world single-handed, there has not bee….
We generally get the evil we expect..
... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall..
the fruit of life is experience, not happiness..
the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushe….
Old age is the verdict of life..
politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And….
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural..
Laughter is always fatal to feeling..
if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck..
To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater..
... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome..
Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gra….
Oh, the soul keeps its youth!.
No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!.