Occupation: Novelist Birth: November 13, 1850 Death: December 3, 1894
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!.
Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for a….
Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them, Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them. Still they are carolled and said - On w….
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?.
For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling….
Live life to the fullest..
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall..
Take care of each other..
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see..
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go..
We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands….
Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence..
In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations..
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits..
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our frie….
I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work….
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examina….
Life is not a matter of holding good cards.
And my heart springs up anew, Bright and confident and true, And the old love comes to meet me, in the dawning and the dew..
To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of ….
Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for a moment venture to hint that it….