Quotes

The parent who sedulously endeavours to form the heart and enlarge the understanding of his child, has given that dignity to the discharge of a duty, common to the whole animal world, that only reason can give.

I have known so few ways of making my life good for anything.

It was only half a dozen little fairy tales, but Jo had worked over them patiently, putting her whole heart into her work, hoping to make something good enough to print.

The barren places between my mind and the minds of others blossomed like the rose.

We met often, and consulted frequently, and told our hopes and fears, recounted the difficulties, real and imagined, which we should be called on to meet.

The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

As for that which is truly good, what can it stand in need of more than either justice or truth; or more than either kindness and modesty?

Consider first, man, what the matter is, and what your own nature is able to bear.

It is because he is thus free from striving that therefore no one in the world is able to strive with him.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

But all the good of nature is the soul's, and may be had, if paid for in nature's lawful coin, that is, by labor which the heart and the head allow.

You are a very strange creature by way of a friend!

There was always scope for fear so long as anything I loved remained behind.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

These little thoughts are the rustle of leaves; they have their whisper of joy in my mind.

Let us then, as children of the same parent, if not bastardized by being the younger born, reason together, and learn to submit to the authority of reason when her voice is distinctly heard.

I have so many thoughts that may be quite mistaken; and now I shall be able to tell them all to you, and ask you about them.

There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.