If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Book Copy Share Image
The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home, the delicious retirement of dependent love. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Angel Copy Share Image
O, the sweet, sweet twilight just before the time of rest, When the black clouds are driven away, and the stormy winds… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Ethics Copy Share Image
The wonder is not that some married people are less happy than they hoped to be, but that any married people, out… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Honeymoon Copy Share Image
Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of "eccentricity" it will stand from anybody who takes… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
God rest ye, little children; let nothing you afright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night; Along the hills… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Blindfold Copy Share Image
The world! It is a word capable of as diverse interpretations or misinterpretations as the thing itself - a thing by various… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
God rest you merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, Was born upon this day, To save us… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves;… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Child Copy Share Image
What small account The All-living seems to take of this thin flame Which we call life. He sends a moment's blast Out… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Character Copy Share Image
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik About friendship Copy Share Image
No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs - the truth from the beginning.… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
There can be - there ought to be - no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Affair Copy Share Image
The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
