Mary Catherwood Quotes & Sayings

#1. Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

#2. Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

#3. There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.

#4. One meets and wakes you to vivid life in an immortal hour. Thousands could not do it through eternity.

#5. To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.

#6. There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.

#7. What we suffer for is enriched by our suffering until it becomes priceless.

#8. The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

#9. We cannot leave the expression of our lives to those better qualified than we are, however dear they may be.

#10. There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.

#11. People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.

Mary Catherwood Quotes