The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations. — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the deeper problems of living can ever be answered by the process of thought. I believe that life itself… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
“On every side were stretched the bodies of men and animals apparently lifeless.” — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
“When he heard these words, Loke ceased to look like a god, for the fury and hate of a devil were in his face.… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
“Then had her envious heart rest, at least such rest as a heart full of envy and malice ever can have.” — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace. — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
“I will fly away to them, to the royal birds, and they will beat me, because I, that am so ugly, dare to come… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
“All the queens of my acquaintance have children, some three, some seven, and some as many as twelve; and my queen has not one.… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
“upon the lid in letters of gold. Then he said to the dwarfs,” — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind. — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
