Speech Old Quotes by Mary Catherwood

People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.

— Mary Catherwood

What we suffer for is enriched by our suffering until it becomes priceless.

— Mary Catherwood

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

— Mary Catherwood

There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.

— Mary Catherwood

The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

— Mary Catherwood

Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

— Mary Catherwood

We cannot leave the expression of our lives to those better qualified than we are, however dear they may be.

— Mary Catherwood

The form of religion was always a trivial matter to me. ... The pageantry of the Roman Church that first mothered and nurtured me…

— Mary Catherwood

There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for…

— Mary Catherwood

There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.

— Mary Catherwood

One meets and wakes you to vivid life in an immortal hour. Thousands could not do it through eternity.

— Mary Catherwood

To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.

— Mary Catherwood