when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage! — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
