Elisabeth Marbury

Throughout my life, I have always found that events which seemed at the time disastrous ultimately developed into positive blessings.

— Elisabeth Marbury

Popular magazines multiply while the library shelves remain undisturbed.

— Elisabeth Marbury

Storehouses filled with merchandise will prove a better guarantee than arsenals bulging with ammunition.

— Elisabeth Marbury

It is high time that the American people should remember a few home truths, and that we should refuse to become partners…

— Elisabeth Marbury

Years in themselves mean nothing. How we live them means everything.

— Elisabeth Marbury

The search of the Holy Grail or the voyage towards a new continent never enlisted so much energy and so much faith…

— Elisabeth Marbury

I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough.

— Elisabeth Marbury

The praise of injudicious friends frequently fosters bad mannerisms.

— Elisabeth Marbury

Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands…

— Elisabeth Marbury

No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.

— Elisabeth Marbury

There is no intolerance in the world so great as the intolerance of tolerance, and no bigotry so excessive as the bigotry…

— Elisabeth Marbury

No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.

— Elisabeth Marbury