Stephanie Barron

“It is ever thus. We find the words to speak when all hope of converse is past.”

— Stephanie Barron

Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely stout stuff as bears…

— Stephanie Barron

“...life's burdens may only be overcome by a summoning of inner resources: by a dependence not upon others, but upon the qualities…

— Stephanie Barron

“The landscape artist had captured a distant prospect of an ancient hillside, surmounted by cyprus and a few tumbled columns; the mood…

— Stephanie Barron

“We cannot expect the men we appoint to govern us, to be better than ourselves.”

— Stephanie Barron

“As the parlour clock began to strike twelve, I opened the kitchen door to let the Old Year out. Then I hurried…

— Stephanie Barron

“There is something so INEVITABLE about seven-and-twenty; it is decidedly on the wrong side of the decade for a lady, particularly an…

— Stephanie Barron

“...the long blue shadows of afternoon advanced before me like cheerful ghosts of last summer's growth, dancing past the withered flower borders…

— Stephanie Barron

“Is lawlessness to be permitted, simply because it is effected with a certain style? Jane, Jane! Where are your finer sensibilities? All…

— Stephanie Barron

“I admire your courage. It is rare to find a woman who places her personal happiness above her fears for the future.”

— Stephanie Barron

“Providence, assuredly, is a mysterious mover, and who is Jane to ignore it's direction?”

— Stephanie Barron

“The world, however bleak I have found it in the last few weeks, must nonetheless be formed of goodness, if but a…

— Stephanie Barron