No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.
There are worse things than a lie. . . I have found. . . that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man.
Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
Beware of creating tedium!
So you're not going to speak tonight," Tessa said. "At all. " "Not unless you instruct me to," said Will. "This evening sounds as if it might be better than I thought.
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par.
In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.