50 quotes
English novelist and poet (1840–1928)
“The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.”
"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."
on Wisdom
"Better to choose a limit capriciously than to have none."
on Discipline
"Love lives on propinquity but dies on contact."
on Love
"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
on Science
"Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art."
on Art
"Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."
on Courage
"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."
on Time
"To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature."
on Nature
"We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in."
on Perception
"Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?"
on Relationships
"If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do."
"A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years."
"It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one."
"He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break."
"Fear is the mother of foresight."
on Fear
"I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on."
on Life
"The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes."
on Hope
"Don't for God's sake speak as saint to sinner, but as you yourself to me myself - poor me!"
on Empathy
"That man's silence is wonderful to listen to."
"There is a good deal too strange to be believed nothing is too strange to have happened."
on Truth
