Elizabeth Gaskell

“It is a great truth, that you cannot extinguish violence by violence.”

“I'll not listen to reason... Reason always means what someone else has got to say.”

“A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.”

“To be sure, the brightest mirror is sometimes tarnished.”

“What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the one master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.”

“I would rather be a man than a king.”

“There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops his work and stands up and thinks: 'My goodness, I must have planted all these'.”

“There's a grand discipline in sorrow.”

“It is one of the great blessings of this world that we can love and be loved.”

“He was not a man to have his head in the clouds, but he was a man who could see beyond the immediate horizon.”

“Oh, I do think that I am tired of being good.”

“Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; it is another for the adviser of a king.”

“The secret of a happy life is to live for others.”

“Let us love the truth, but let us also love the person who speaks it.”

“I have been so much better since my illness.”

“There is a charm in the mystery of the unknown.”