31 Quotes by Catherine Helen Spence

Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.

I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society in the land of our adoption.

A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.

The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.

The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.

Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.