Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
“He needed so much to weep. All the distrust of life which misfortunes had brought to the little Värmland boy needed tears to wash… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
Here, no mercy is shown. One hates one's fellow man to the glory of God. — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
“Assim manda a justiça - a inteligência e a sabedoria foram e são ainda hoje as qualidades que transformam o mendigo em príncipe.” — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind. — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
“What Gosta,' he said to himself, 'can you no longer endure? You have been hardened in poverty all of your life; you have heard… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
The ways of Providence cannot be reasoned out by the finite mind ... I cannot fathom them, yet seeking to know them is the… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
