George Gissing Quotes

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose
between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

He liked to feel the soft little hand clasping his own fingers, so big and coarse in comparison, and happily so strong. For in the child's weakness he felt an infinite pathos; a being so entirely helpless, so utterly dependent upon others' love, standing there amid a world of cruelties, smiling and trustful.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be
generous.

The earning of money should be a means to an end; for more than thirty years-I began to support myself at sixteen-I had to regard it as the end itself.