Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
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One can begin so many things with a new person! – even begin to be a better man.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like the hearing of grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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Young Mr Ladislaw was not at all deep himself in German writers; but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man’s shortcomings.
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To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion – a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. One may have that condition by fits only.
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‘The theatre of all my actions is fallen,’ said an antique personage when his chief friend was dead; and they are fortunate who get a theatre where the audience demands their best.
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“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”
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(And also this one.)
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