A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected. — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter,… — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds. — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued. — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
The fears of what may come to pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover scented grass, Among the new-mown hay. — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
No pleasure or success in life quite meets the capacity of our hearts. We take in our good things with enthusiasm, and think ourselves… — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements,… — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
