Quotes

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage--but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler "Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before--consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. " ~ Adam Bede by George Eliot Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. ~ Adam Bede by George Eliot "We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves." ~ Adam Bede by George Eliot Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. ~ Adam Bede by George Eliot "It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crop." ~ Adam Bede by George Eliot