Margaret Deland
Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt.Collection: Inspirational
As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.Collection: Inspiration
Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.Collection: Army
The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.Collection: Happiness
it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.Collection: Crazy
I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.Collection: Men
I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.Collection: Two
Real divorce takes place without a decree.Collection: Real
Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness.Collection: Doe
A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.Collection: Inspirational
Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now; there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul; and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.Collection: Christmas
as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.Collection: Manners
Nothing may be more selfish than remorse.Collection: Regret
there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive - for no one knows what wisdom lies concealed in silence!Collection: Lying
One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.Collection: Names
One must desire something to be alive.Collection: Dream
Weakness is a great bully without knowing it.Collection: Knowing
A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.Collection: Mind
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.Collection: Spiritual
the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!Collection: Ministry
If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.Collection: Hate
War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.Collection: Hate
men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.Collection: Men
If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear.Collection: Fear
conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.Collection: Horse
Anger as well as love casts out fear.Collection: Anger
I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.Collection: Soul
You can't have genius without patience.Collection: Genius
Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!Collection: Spiritual
... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.Collection: Arrogant
We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.Collection: Lonely
There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.Collection: Mother
Home is the best place to be sick in.Collection: Home
there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.Collection: War
Fighting should be left to dogs and cats and chickens, who can't reason.Collection: Dog
The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.Collection: Time
Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.Collection: Grandmother
Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.Collection: Years
we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.Collection: Responsibility
The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.Collection: Anger
When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom?Collection: Age
as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.Collection: Evil
I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.Collection: Law
... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!Collection: Safety
Hearts don't come when Reason whistles to 'em.Collection: Heart
Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.Collection: Sorry
There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.Collection: Listening
When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.Collection: Promise
Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.Collection: Truth Is
a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.Collection: Hero