Quotes from Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.

One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

I thank you, God, in Heaven, for friends.

In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.

No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.

... Love is heaven and claims its own.

At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is heaven and claims its own.

In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.

Love is like fire, a dangerous thing to play with, although the best of friends and the most loyal of servants when rightly handled.

Self-complacency is fatal to progress.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

And hearts have been broken from harsh words spoken That sorrow can ne'er set right.

Not always the fanciest cake that's there Is the best to eat!

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

Broadly speaking, nervous women may be divided into two classes - those who are really nervous, and those who imagine themselves to be so.

My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.

Out of the chill and the shadow Into the thrill and the shine Out of the dearth and the famine Into the fullness divine.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is heaven and claims its own.