Quotes

"The natur o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change. The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy; and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot." ~ Adam Bede by George Eliot Leverage is everything,--was what I used to say;--don't begin to pry till you have got the long arm on your side. ~ Elsie Venner by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Beliefs must be lived in for a good while, before they accommodate themselves to the soul's wants, and wear loose enough to be comfortable. ~ Elsie Venner by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded. ~ Elsie Venner by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. It is in the nature of all passionate and uncontrolled emotion to prey upon and weaken the forces of reflective power, as much as it is in the nature of controlled emotion to strengthen them. ~ The True Story of Guenever by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps To Arthur love is a state, not a process; an atmosphere, not a study; an assurance, not a hope; a fact, not an ideal. ~ The True Story of Guenever by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Passion takes no count of time; peril marks no hours or minutes; wrong makes its own calendar; and misery has solar systems peculiar to itself. ~ The True Story of Guenever by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps "Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose." ~ The Money Master by Gilbert Parker He was of those who hypnotize themselves, who glow with self-creation, who flower and bloom without pollen. ~ The Money Master by Gilbert Parker "Tomorrow is no man's gift." ~ The Weavers by Gilbert Parker