Anna Katharine Green
Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?
There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.
There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.Collection: Children
The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed.Collection: Way
It was the smile which runs before a promise.Collection: Running
It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.Collection: Men
The very shadows seem to listen.Collection: Shadow
Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.Collection: Adventure
faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.Collection: Mirrors
The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.Collection: Hands
Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?Collection: Suffering
He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.Collection: Sympathy
a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.Collection: Secret