“My heart beat violently. My forehead was bathed in a cold perspiration. I asked myself for the first time what it was that I was about to see when this door was opened? What chamber, long closed - what deed… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
“The future - what should I do with the future? I felt like one who has climbed the brow of a great hill, and finds only a sea of mist beyond. Go forward I must; but to what goal? With… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship. — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation. — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface. — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
“My heart beat violently. My forehead was bathed in a cold perspiration. I asked myself for the first time what it was that I… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
“The future - what should I do with the future? I felt like one who has climbed the brow of a great hill, and… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure,… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher. — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
