Great Throughts Treasury

"Long-puerilized fancy will bear an endless repetition."

"Look of challenge, of interrogation, almost of reproof."

"Looked as if Destiny had sat upon it."

"Lord, for the erring thought not into evil wrought: Lord, for the wicked will betrayed and baffled still: for the heart from itself kept, our thanksgiving accept."

"Love of freedom and the hope of justice."

"Luxury of helplessness."

"Made many of my acquaintances very tired of my favorite authors."

"Made them talk as seldom man and never woman talked."

"Malevolent agitators."

"Man is strange to himself as long as he lives."

"Man who had so much of the boy in him."

"Man who may any moment be out of work is industrially a slave."

"Marriages are what the parties to them alone really know."

"Married Man: after the first start-off he don't try."

"Meet here to the purpose of a common ostentation."

"Mellow cordial of a voice that was like no other."

"Men read the newspapers, but our women read the books."

"Men's lives ended where they began, in the keeping of women."

"Met with kindness, if not honor."

"Mind and soul were with those who do the hard work of the world."

"Mind of a man is the court of final appeal for the wisest women."

"Morbid egotism."

"Most desouthernized Southerner I ever knew."

"Most journalists would have been literary men if they could."

"Most serious, the most humane, the most conscientious of men."

"Motives lie nearer the surface than most people commonly pretend."

"Mustache, which in those days devoted a man to wickedness."

"My own youth now seems to me rather more alien."

"My reading gave me no standing among the boys."

"Napoleonic height which spiritually overtops the Alps."

"Nearly nothing as chaos could be."

"Neatness that brings despair."

"Never appeals to the principle which sniffs, in his reader."

"Never paid in anything but hopes of paying."

"Never quite sure of life unless I find literature in it."

"Never saw a dead man whom he did not envy."

"Never saw a man more regardful of Negroes."

"New England necessity of blaming someone."

"New York may be splendidly gay or squalidly gay but prince or pauper, it's gay always...Yes, gay is the word...but frantic. I can't get used to it. They forget death, Basil; they forget death in New York."

"No greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth."

"No man ever yet told the truth about himself."

"No man more perfectly sensed and more entirely abhorred slavery."

"No object in life except to deprive it of all object."

"No rose blooms right along."

"No two men see the same star."

"No, no. I understand that. And I quite agree with you. But you know I've always contended that the affections could be made to combine pleasure and profit. I wouldn't have a man marry for money,--that would be rather bad,--but I don't see why, when it comes to falling in love, a man shouldn't fall in love with a rich girl as easily as a poor one. Some of the rich girls are very nice, and I should"

"Noble uselessness."

"None of the passions are reasoned."

"Not a man who cared to transcend; he liked bounds."

"Not much patience with the unmanly craving for sympathy."