Gertrude Atherton Quotes
Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.
Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!
Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.
It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.
genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.
I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.
when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.
The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place")