Occupation: Novelist Birth: June 2, 1840 Death: January 11, 1928
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature..
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things..
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened..
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him..
Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?.
If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst..
I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger..
Some folk want their luck buttered..
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change..
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid..
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length..
And yet to every bad there is a worse..
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity..
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons..
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain..
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes..
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die..
People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's….
The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good ….
A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away..
The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse..