Jane Porter

none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.

— Jane Porter

It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.

— Jane Porter

Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.

— Jane Porter

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.

— Jane Porter

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but…

— Jane Porter

Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.

— Jane Porter

I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to…

— Jane Porter

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

— Jane Porter

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it…

— Jane Porter

It has been wisely said, "that well may thy guardian angel suffer thee to lose thy locks, when thou darest wilfully to…

— Jane Porter

“Don’t. Don’t say you’ve changed your mind. You promised me!”

— Jane Porter

“God forgive her, but underneath the smiles and the good job and the great family, she was tired. Desperately tired. Tired to…

— Jane Porter

How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity.

— Jane Porter

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.

— Jane Porter

Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every…

— Jane Porter

However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet…

— Jane Porter

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.

— Jane Porter

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

— Jane Porter

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who injured us; and it is hardly possible for one man…

— Jane Porter

A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.

— Jane Porter

“Makin, my friend, I thought you were just seeing her safely home." "I was." "What happened?" "I couldn't let her go.”

— Jane Porter

we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.

— Jane Porter

When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.

— Jane Porter

Any base heart can devise means of vileness, and affix the ugly shapings of its own fancy to the actions of those…

— Jane Porter

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

— Jane Porter