Constance Fenimore Woolson
Time is not so all-erasing as we think.Collection: Time
Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.Collection: House
My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.Collection: Love You
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?Collection: Humble
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?Collection: Egotistical
warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.Collection: Kindness
If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us.Collection: Gratitude
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.Collection: Daughter