Quotes from Katherine Cecil Thurston

by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible!

A good horse is the best company in the world.

To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!

No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.

in this curious world there are certain beings to whom it is given to say of all things with naïve faith, not 'I shall seek,' but 'I shall find.