If nature calls itself Providence, society should call itself foresight.
fromLes MisérablesbyVictor HugoListen to them—the children of the night; what music they make! The wolves are not to me as they are to other men. To them the night is freedom and food; to me it is kinship and home, and I have learned to love their voices as a man loves his own blood.
fromDraculabyBram StokerI certainly esteem myself a steady, reasonable kind of body… I have undergone sharp discipline, which has taught me wisdom; and then, I have read more than you would fancy, Mr. Lockwood.
fromWuthering HeightsbyEmily BronteLife appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
fromJane EyrebyCharlotte Brontë