Great Throughts Treasury

"Secretly admires the splendors he affects to despise."

"Seen through the wrong end of the telescope."

"Seldom talked, but there came times when he wouldn?t even listen."

"Self-satisfied, intolerant, and hypocritical provinciality."

"Shackles of belief worn so long."

"She had conquered, but she had also necessarily lost much. Perhaps what she had lost was not worth keeping; but at any rate she had lost it."

"She liked to get all she could out of her emotions."

"Should probably have wasted the time if I had not read them."

"Singleness of a nature that was all pose."

"So long as we have social inequality we shall have snobs."

"So many millionaires and so many tramps."

"So refined, after the gigantic coarseness of California."

"Society interested in a woman's past, not her future."

"Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week."

"Some people stay longer in an hour than others do in a month."

"Sometimes they sacrificed the song to the sermon."

"Somewhat shy of his fellow-men, as the scholar seems always to be."

"Somewhat too studied grace."

"Sought the things that he could agree with you upon."

"Spare his years the fatigue of recalling your identity."

"Speaks it is not with words and blood, but with words and ink."

"Spit some hapless victim: make him suffer and the reader laugh."

"Standards were their own, and they were satisfied with them."

"Study in a corner by the porch."

"Stupefied by a life of unalloyed prosperity and propriety."

"Stupidly truthful."

"Style is the man, and he cannot hide himself in any garb."

"Submitted, as people always do with the trials of others."

"Sunny gayety of self-forgetfulness."

"Superiority one likes to feel towards the rich and great."

"Take our pleasures ungraciously."

"Teach what they do not know."

"Tediously analytical."

"The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number."

"The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you."

"The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection"

"The great trouble is for the man to be honest with her."

"The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all."

"The novelist might be greater possible help to us if they painted life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and relation, but for the most part they have been and are altogether noxious."

"The old and ugly are fastidious as to the looks of others."

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

"There is small love of pure literature."

"There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things."

"They are rather helplessly frank, but not, I hope, with all their rather helpless frankness, offensively frank."

"They are so many and I am so few."

"Things common to all, however peculiar in each."

"Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!"

"Those who have sorrowed deepest will understand this best."

"Those who work too much and those who rest too much."

"Times when a man's city was a man's country."