Quotes by Jeremias Gotthelf

“Hard by the church stood the public house; so often the two are closely conjoined, honorably sharing both joys and sorrows.”

“Where there is great pride or great wealth, men soon come to believe that their appetites are their wisdom.”

“And now Christine felt as if her face was bursting open and glowing coals were being birthed from it, quickening into life and swarming across her face and all her limbs, and everything within her face had sprung to life, a fiery swarming all across her body. In the lightning’s pallid glow she saw, long-legged and venomous, innumerable black spiderlings scurrying down her limbs and out into the night, and as they vanished they were followed, long-legged and venomous, by innumerable others.”