Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George Eliot Quotes
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
It is never to late to be what you might have been.
A woman’s hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
To most men their early home is no more than a memory of their early years. The image is never marred. There’s no dissappointment in memory, and one’s exaggerations are always on the good side.
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing as long as we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
It’s no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.
