Alice Cary

“Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.”

“True worth is in being, not seeming.”

“Our lives are albums written through / With good or ill, with false or true.”

“Sometimes the best gain is to lose.”

“Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul which have been restored and brought to light in this age, none is more gladdening or fruitful of divine promise and reward than this—that every soul builds its own house.”

“There is nothing so cheap as politeness.”

“Do not look for wrong and evil. You will find them.”

“Nothing is so easy as to be a philosopher—on paper.”

“Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.”

“A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.”

“Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other.”

“Creeds grow so thick along the way, Their boughs hide God.”

“Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, in the cradle of the human race.”