Few are the hearts whose happy lot it is at once to recognize in each other’s voices the partner intended for them by Providence. Discuss Edwin Abbott
Edgar Rice Burroughs
She might hate me, and revile me, and heap indignity after indignity upon me, as she already had, until I should have hated her; but the pitiful fact remained that I loved her. Discuss Edgar Rice Burroughs
Poem of the day – Joey by Robert Service
I thought I would go daft when Joey died.He was my first, and wise beyond his years.For nigh a hundred nights I cried and cried,Until my weary eyes burned up my tears.Willie and Rosie tried to comfort me:A woeful, weeping family were we. I was a widow with no friends at all,Ironing men’s shirts to … Continued
Virginia Woolf
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father. Discuss Virginia Woolf
Hans Christian Andersen
Where words fail, music speaks. Discuss Hans Christian Andersen
Francis Bacon
Be not penny-wise; riches have wings, and sometimes they fly away of themselves. Discuss Francis Bacon
Kate Wiggin
Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world. Discuss Kate Wiggin
John Quincy Adams
Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated; the field of politics supplies the alchemists of our times with materials of more fatal explosion, and the butchers of mankind no longer travel to another world for instruments of cruelty and destruction. Discuss John Quincy Adams
Jonathan Swift
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. Discuss Jonathan Swift
George Eliot
But faithfulness can feed on suffering,And knows no disappointment. Discuss George Eliot