15 quotes
Do you recognize what you were born to be? Not only a nobleman, but a gentleman; not only a gentleman, but a man — man, made in the image of God.
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
There is no such word as 'too late,' in the wide world — nay, not in the universe.
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
In marriage there must be perfect unity;—one aim, one faith, one love, or the marriage is incomplete, unholy—a mere civil contract and no more.
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
It's astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
John held strongly the opinion that so solemn a festival as marriage is only desecrated by outward show.
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
I think a wife is bound to the very last to obey in all things not absolutely wrong, her husband's will.
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
Half the sting of poverty is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comments of one's neighbours.
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
I hold every man's faith so sacred, that no other man has a right to interfere with it, or to question it. The matter lies solely between himself and his Maker.
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
Lad, I thought so. Thee hast found the curse of man's life—woman.
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
I am a Christian. I shall not return blow for blow.
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
It is often easiest to lose those we are fond of and who are fond of us, because in one sense we never can really lose them. Nothing in this world, nor, I believe, in any other, can part those who truly and faithfully love.
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
I think either parent would have looked amazed had any one pitied them for having a blind child. The loss—a loss only to them, and not to her, the darling!—became familiar, and ceased to wound; the blessedness was ever new.
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
"Get out o' Mr. Fletcher's road, ye idle, lounging, little —"
"Vagabond," I think the woman (Sally Walkins, once my nurse,) was going to say, but she changed her mind.
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
"You want to found a family. [...] [A]ll coming generations shall live to the honour and glory of your name—our name—"
"My boy, there is only one Name to whose honour we should all live."
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
No one but me ever knew all his goodness, no one but himself ever knew how dearly I loved your father. We were more precious each to each than anything on earth; except His service, who gave us to one another.
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)