However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Any base heart can devise means of vileness, and affix the ugly shapings of its own fancy to the actions of those… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
But the most annoying of all public reformers is the personal satirist. Though he may be considered by some few as a… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire;… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
It has been wisely said, "that well may thy guardian angel suffer thee to lose thy locks, when thou darest wilfully to lay thy… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
“God forgive her, but underneath the smiles and the good job and the great family, she was tired. Desperately tired. Tired to the point… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
