
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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THE LIBRARY
Words to return to, with the context behind them.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,

Trust thyself:

You must learn some of my philosophy.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

angry people are not always wise;

Till this moment, I never knew myself.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

I dearly love a laugh.

My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.

Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Well! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,

Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

because they lessen from day to day.

Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it),