“Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.””
“My wife and I said good-bye the next morning in a little sheltered place among the lumber on the wharf; she was one of your women who never like to do their crying before folks.She climbed on the pile of lumber and sat down, a little flushed and quivery, to watch us off. I remember seeing her there with the baby till we were well down the channel. I remember noticing the bay as it grew cleaner, and thinking that I would break off swearing; and I remember cursing Bob Smart like a pirate within an hour.("Kentucky's Ghost")””
“They don't take the Bible as a general thing, sailors don't; though I will say that I never saw the man at sea who didn't give it the credit of being an uncommon good yarn.("Kentucky's Ghost")””
“I shall miss you,' said Perley. 'Of course I shall miss you, Maverick. So should I miss the piano, if it were taken out of the parlor.””
“He forgot that anybody was there, and, sobbing, hid his face in his great hands.””
Elizabeth Stuart PhelpsElizabeth Stuart Phelps was an influential American author and early feminist whose works challenged the conventional beliefs of her time. Born in 1844, she became known for her thought-provoking nove...
“A certain indefinable humanness softens his eyes and tones, and seems to be creeping into everything that he says.””
“He was once an abstract Grandeur which I struggled more in fear than love to please. He has become a living Presence, dear and real””
“...[F]or the sullenness left his face, and his eyes--which are pleasant, and not unmanly, when one fairly sees them-- sparkled softly, like a child's.””
“Aunt Winifred says that our hymns, taken all together, contain the worst and the best pictures of heaven that we have in any branch of literature.””
“Eternity will never become monotonous.””
“...[F]orgetfulness of the disagreeable things of this life implies forgetfulness of the pleasant ones. They are all tangled together.””
“The last pain borne, the last tear, the last sigh, the last lonely hour, the last unsatisfied dream, forever gone by; why should not the dead past bury its dead?””
“He believed, you know, that it takes a material body, a spiritual body, and a soul, to make a man. Death is simply the slipping off of the outer body, as a husk slips off from its kernel. The deathless frame stands ready then for the soul's untrammeled occupation.””
“I begged her not to leave me. I begged her to stay and help me bear my life.””
“The mystery of the Bible lies not so much in what it says, as in what it does not say.””
“...[F]or to love and to be separated is misery, and Heaven is joy.””
“I had a vague, unreasoning feeling that she would take away some of the bitterness of it, as she has taken the bitterness of much else.””
“I laid my head upon her shoulder, and could hardly speak for the comfort that she gave me.””
“Being only out of sight, you remember, not lost, nor asleep, nor annihilated, he goes on loving. To love must mean to think of, to care for, to hope for, to pray for, not less out of a body than it.””
“How very still you sit!””