He would always feel for her that impersonal admiration which is inspired by anything very large, like the Empire State Building or the Grand Canyon of Arizona. Discuss
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To know, to esteem, to love, and then to part,
Makes up life’s tale to many a feeling heart! Discuss
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Wilkie Collins
One of our first amusements as children (if we have any imagination at all) is to get out of our own characters, and to try the characters of other personages as a change—to be fairies, to be queens, to be anything, in short, but what we really are. Discuss
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Edith Wharton
The stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose. Discuss
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. Discuss
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