Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Quotes

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.

Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.

The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.

Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

I thank you, God, in Heaven, for friends.

In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.

... Love is heaven and claims its own.

At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is heaven and claims its own.

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

Not always the fanciest cake that's there Is the best to eat!

Love is like fire, a dangerous thing to play with, although the best of friends and the most loyal of servants when rightly handled.

Self-complacen cy is fatal to progress.

My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.

Broadly speaking, nervous women may be divided into two classes - those who are really nervous, and those who imagine themselves to be so.

In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.

Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine.

One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.

A letter is the most imperishable thing on earth.

Mind does dominate body. We are superior to the house in which we dwell.

Every child's birthright is a happy home.

Memory is a trustworthy servant as long as it is made to serve.

Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

Theres nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.

It isn't the thing you do, dear, it's the thing you leave undone which gives you a bit of heartache at the setting at the setting of the sun.

And hearts have been broken from harsh words spoken That sorrow can ne'er set right.

Out of the chill and the shadow Into the thrill and the shine Out of the dearth and the famine Into the fullness divine.

Self-complacency is fatal to progress.