Quotes from Mary Catherwood

There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.

To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.

One meets and wakes you to vivid life in an immortal hour. Thousands could not do it through eternity.

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.

The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.