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

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He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

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Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries.

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The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

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I told you from the beginning—as soon as I could—I told you I was afraid of myself." There was a piteous pleading in the low murmur in which Deronda t...more

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Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowled...more

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I cannot imagine myself without some opinion, but I wish to have good reasons for them.

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Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

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Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a mo...more

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Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat...more

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Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

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[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining after dr...more