Occupation: Novelist Birth: November 22, 1819 Death: December 22, 1880
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men..
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity..
Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with..
Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals..
Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on..
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence..
In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in..
College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em..
but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings..
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves.
What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!.
These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their disp….
Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodie….
The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter..
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?.
It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be..
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity..
'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'..
It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid..
to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored..
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted..