When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
“There is any amount of love and good in the world, but you must search for it. Being misunderstood is one of the trials we all must bear. I think that even the most common-minded person in the land has… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand! — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind:… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
“There is any amount of love and good in the world, but you must search for it. Being misunderstood is one of the trials… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
