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“Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.”
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“It doesn't take any more energy to create a big dream than it does to create a little one.”
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“I'm so southern Ohio. And Cleveland is a different world, you know?”
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“If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.”
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“We weep and laugh, as we see others do.”
Source : Wentworth Dillon (4th earl of Roscommon.) (1749). “The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon”, p.157
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“Entire affection hateth nicer hands.”
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“In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.”
Source : Fanny Kemble (1961). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.101, University of Georgia Press
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“She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant's tusk.”
