That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the… — Amelia Barr Copy Share
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural. — Amelia Barr Copy Share
I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people. — Amelia Barr Copy Share
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or… — Amelia Barr Copy Share
No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage! — Amelia Barr Copy Share
... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome. — Amelia Barr Copy Share
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. — Amelia Barr Copy Share
The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you. — Amelia Barr Copy Share
... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him… — Amelia Barr Copy Share
if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck. — Amelia Barr Copy Share
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them. — Amelia Barr Copy Share
politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we… — Amelia Barr Copy Share
