Wisdom Quotations | Page 2

When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it...

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

Trifles make the sum of life.

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.