Amelia Barr

“All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.”

“Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. It is the feeling that binds us together.”

“It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.”

“Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.”

“There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. Like imprisoned steam, the more it is pressed the more it rises to resist the pressure.”

“Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.”

“It is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.”

“If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.”

“The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.”

“It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.”

“However dark the night, however dim our hopes, the light will always follow darkness.”

“I have lived in the world quite long enough to discover that nothing is so important as insuring one's own peace of mind.”

“But all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do—remember that—and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavors to persuade.”

“Adversity is the first path to truth.”

“The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.”

“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is to let it rain.”

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

“Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.”

“Memory is the only friend that grief can call its own.”

“Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.”