Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

Quote by George Eliot

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Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets,...

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets,...

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort...

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort...

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of...

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of...

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough...

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough...

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen...

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen...

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise...

If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise...

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not...

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not...

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we...

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we...

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in,...

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in,...

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the...

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the...

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may...

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may...

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest...

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest...

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to...

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to...

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.