Problems and difficulties Quotes

I cannot possibly allow you to scatter priceless pearls of time with such Oriental lavishness.

The idea of devoting to them thirty or forty consecutive minutes of wonderful solitude is to me repugnant.

In case of friction, the machine is always at fault.

The books and manuscripts being thus for sale, the wooden shelves, desks, and seats of the old library, and for the most part the contents of the library had been rescued from miserable ill-usage in the monasteries and chapter-houses where they had their first habitations.

It is our duty to act upon probabilities, although the evidence is not such as to justify present belief.

What is to be done? said the Queen.

How are we to face our queen, said the three mice, when by our folly we have lost the talisman and condemned our people to be utterly exterminated?

It is true that this duty is a hard one, and the doubt which comes out of it is often a very bitter thing.

It leaves us bare and powerless where we thought that we were safe and strong.

Every time we let ourselves believe for unworthy reasons, we weaken our powers of self-control, of doubting, of judicially and fairly weighing evidence.

The Wolf began to run as fast as he could, taking the nearest way, and the little girl went by that farthest about, diverting herself in gathering nuts, running after butterflies, and making nosegays of such little flowers as she met with.

All that he had left was a little house in a desolate place at least a hundred leagues from the town in which he had lived, and to this he was forced to retreat with his children, who were in despair at the idea of leading such a different life.

Evil is so made to wait upon good in this world—to quicken it by alarm, to brighten it by contrast.

Things forbidden have a secret charm

It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire

Even a single hair casts a shadow

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes