Quote | Author | Source | Email Quote |
| She had once been described, by one who saw below the surface, as a perfectly beautiful woman in an absolutely plain shell. | Florence L. Barclay | The Rosary |  |
| Parents are apt to see no injustice in the fact that they are often annoyed with their offspring for possessing attributes, both of character and appearance, with which they themselves have endowed them. | Florence L. Barclay | The Rosary | |
| "I do hate singing before that sort of audience. It is like giving them your soul to look at, and you don't want them to see it. It seems indecent. To my mind, music is the most REVEALING thing in the world." | Florence L. Barclay | The Rosary | |
| "Americans are so charming, that we really must not mind their money." | Florence L. Barclay | The Rosary | |
| "Marriage is not a mere question of sentiment. It has to wear. It has to last. It must have a solid and dependable foundation, to stand the test and strain of daily life together." | Florence L. Barclay | The Rosary | |
| "The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage." | Florence L. Barclay | The Rosary | |
| Unlike the gold which needed nothing, and must be worshipped in close-locked solitude—which was hidden away from the daylight, was deaf to the song of birds, and started to no human tones—Eppie was a creature of endless claims and ever-growing desires, seeking and loving sunshine, and living sounds, and living movements; making trial of everything, with trust in new joy, and stirring the human kindness in all eyes that looked on her. | George Eliot | Silas Marner | |
| Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence—whether much that is glorious—whether all that is profound—does not spring from disease of thought—from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. | Edgar Allan Poe | Eleonora | |
| They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. | Edgar Allan Poe | Eleonora | |
| Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities. | Edgar Allan Poe | The Murders in the Rue Morgue | |
