Quotes from Amelia Barr

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Men can bear all things but good days.

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

Kindness is always fashionable.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

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 to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Old age is the verdict of life.

... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.