44 quotes
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
"Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes."
on Happiness
"There are strings in the human heart which must never be sounded by another, and drinks that I make myself are those strings in mine."
on Love
"We need never be ashamed of our tears."
on Emotion
"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."
on Nature
"In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong."
on Courage
"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."
on Relationships
"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts."
on Emotions
"Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
on Gratitude
"Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration."
on Philosophy
"There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose."
"The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day."
"I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything"
"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
on Life
"And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never."
"There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
on Truth
"Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine."
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."
"All other swindlers upon earth are nothing compared to self-swindlers."
"I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world."
"A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man."
