Quotes from Constance Fenimore Woolson

warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.

Time is not so all-erasing as we think.

My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.

They did not realize what a supreme effort of courage it required to make this young girl go out alone into the wide world, and face its vastness and its strangeness.

For years of faithfulness even as a child are not thrown away, but yield . . . a strength at last in times of trial.