Mary C. Ames Quotes

#1. Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?

Mary C. Ames

#2. What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?

Mary C. Ames

#3. The woman born to physical subjection and degradation can never seek or use knowledge as her birthright. Never till she holds her sex in honor, as man holds his, can she be his equal, even in her own realm.

Mary C. Ames

#4. The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.

Mary C. Ames

#5. The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no consideration of its intellectual and spiritual power.

Mary C. Ames

#6. To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late, A work too late for fame.

Mary C. Ames

#7. A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.

Mary C. Ames

#8. Most people carry an ideal man and woman in their head, and when the practical relations of the men and women of every day are discussed with reference only to these impossible ideals, we need not marvel at any ridiculous conclusions.

Mary C. Ames

#9. The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.

Mary C. Ames