Jane Porter Quotes

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.

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

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.

If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor.

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.

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

The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.

National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

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

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes.

True virtue, when she errs, needs not the eyes of men to excite her blushes; she is confounded at her own presence, and covered with confusion of face.

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

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

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

In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to tie obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a beloved wife or a happy mother.

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

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

The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

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

To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions.

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

When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself.

Love is full of imagination.

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

In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.

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

Bright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end.

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

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect!

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

The mob is a sort of bear while your ring is through its nose it will even dance under your cudgel but should the ring slip and you lose your hold the brute will turn and rend you.