Inspiration Quotes, page 99

“An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.”

“Be natural, my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.”

“There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.”

“I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”

“My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention.”

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”

“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”

“The men who learn endurance are they who call the whole world brother.”

“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”

“It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.”

“And can it be that in a world so full and busy, the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!”

“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.”

“Death is a mighty, universal truth.”

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried than before — more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”

“We forge the chains we wear in life.”

“Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.”

“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.”

“Home is like the ship at sea, sailing on eternally; oft the anchor forth we cast, but can never make it fast.”

“For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.”

“People like us don't go out at night, because people like them see us for what we are.”

“In love of home, the love of country has its rise.”

“The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.”

“There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.”

“I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support of any kind from anyone that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!”

“My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.”

“I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?”

“A multitude of people and yet solitude.”

“Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.”