Top 10 Constance Fenimore Woolson Quotes
#1. Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.
Constance Fenimore Woolson
#2. Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?
Constance Fenimore Woolson
#3. They did not realize what a supreme effort of courage it required to make this young girl go out alone into the wide world, and face its vastness and its strangeness.
Constance Fenimore Woolson
#4. A daughter's love for a kind father ... is mixed with the careless happiness of childhood, which can never come again. Into the father's grave the daughter, sometimes a gray-haired woman, lays away forever the little pet names and memories which to all the rest of the world are but foolishness.
Constance Fenimore Woolson
#8. For years of faithfulness even as a child are not thrown away, but yield ... a strength at last in times of trial.
Constance Fenimore Woolson
#9. Warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.
Constance Fenimore Woolson
#10. It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?
Constance Fenimore Woolson
