Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Quotes

never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it.

We are all of us very perfect creatures so long as we are not tried.

There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.

Love never stands still; it must inevitably be either growing or decaying - especially the love of marriage.

The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.

If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors.

God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

Alack, this world Is full of change, change, change--nothing but change!

absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

Many true words are spoken in jest.

there is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness.

our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.