Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
William Blake [I tend to get these out of order.]
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
William Blake
Home is the nicest word there is.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Marilla, isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
Lucy Maud Montgomery from Anne of Green Gables
I’m not a bit changed—not really. I’m only just pruned down and branched out.
Lucy Maud Montgomery from Anne of Green Gables
It’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There’d be no scope for imagination then, would there?
Lucy Maud Montgomery from Anne of Green Gables
Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.
― Lucy Maude Montgomery, Chronicles of Avonlea
The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth.
Emily Bronte
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Charlotte Bronte
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
Charlotte Bronte
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte
I’m just going to write because I cannot help it.
Charlotte Bronte
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Charlotte Bronte
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Victor Hugo (via nypl)
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James