Mary Louisa Molesworth

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Don't raise your expectations too high. It's the surest way of being disappointed.
- Mary Louisa Molesworth
Collection: Expectations
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Troubles never come singly.
- Mary Louisa Molesworth
Collection: Trouble
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Grumbling, as things are at present arranged in this world, does not always, nor I might say often, do good.
- Mary Louisa Molesworth
Collection: Grumbling
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kindnesses have wings and roots ... wings that never droop, and roots that never die.
- Mary Louisa Molesworth
Collection: Kindness
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Do any of us understand ourselves? all the different selves that each of us is?
- Mary Louisa Molesworth
Collection: Self