You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to the impressions of the senses, or the illusions of the imagination — Sydney, Lady Morgan Copy Share Image
It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind propitious offerings to that Deity whose works are… — Sydney, Lady Morgan Copy Share Image
You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself… — Sydney, Lady Morgan Copy Share Image
It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a… — Sydney, Lady Morgan Copy Share Image
Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule. — Sydney, Lady Morgan Copy Share Image
The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of… — Sydney, Lady Morgan Copy Share Image
Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the… — Sydney, Lady Morgan Copy Share Image
The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in… — Sydney, Lady Morgan Copy Share Image
