It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
BRAM STOKERSleep has no place it can call its own.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves – although perhaps it does not come out in the same way – and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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