Whimsically Didactic

“Had he but turned back then, and looked out once more on to the rose-lit garden, she would have seen that which would have made her own sufferings seem but light and easy to bear—a strong man, overwhelmed with his own passion and despair. Pride had given way at last, obstinacy was gone: the will was powerless. He was but a man madly, blindly, passionately in love and as soon as her light footstep had died away within the house, he knelt down upon the terrace steps, and in the very madness of his love he kissed one by one the places where her small foot had trodden, and the stone balustrade, where her tiny hand had rested last.”

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Emmuska Orczy (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)

Love this book.  My favorite (non HP) series is actually loosely based off of the world created by it. 

“To be, or not to be—that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them.” Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” (via quote-book)

“Dream no small dreams, for they have no power to move the hearts of men” Thoreau (via melpeezy)

“This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.” Henry David Thoreau (via double-vee) (via fuckyeahthoreau)

“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and…play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.” The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)

“Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.” Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)

“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.” Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)

“Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.” Compensation, Ralph Waldo Emerson (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)

“We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.” Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)

“Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.” William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well (Act I. Scene ii) (via mirrorsandmirages)