Amelia E. Barr

“It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.”

“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”

“Kindness is always fashionable.”

“Human nature is the same everywhere; it is the varnish that is different.”

“But truth is sacred, and where it is not sacred, nothing is.”

“Courage is a divine weapon that makes a man superior to his own sufferings.”

“The circumstances of the world are so variable, that an irrevocable purpose is almost synonymous with a foolish one.”

“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past.”

“Grief is a great dignifier.”

“It is only the impossible that is possible for God.”

“Every one of us has a bit of the wander-lust in him, and it is a good thing.”

“There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is by his stature.”

“Whatever you are, be a man.”

“The truest and most beautiful things in the world are those which are felt, not those which are seen.”

“The great duties of life are not performed by wrestling and struggling, but by patience, and perseverance, and prayer.”

“For love is a celestial something, which is not to be bought, or sold, or exhorted, but which has its own laws, and will have its own way.”