31 Quotes by Catherine Helen Spence

Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.

There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life

I look back to a happy childhood.

I think my brother John profited less by the great advance of South Australia than he deserved for sticking to the Bank of South Australia.

But more important than all this was the fact that we took hold of the growth and development of South Australia, and identified ourselves with it.

Although my mother had the greatest love for Sir Walter Scott, and the highest appreciation of his poems and novels, she never liked Melrose.

In all my travels and visits I saw little of the theatre or concert room, and some of the candid confessions of Mrs. Oliphant might stand for my own.

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

There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life.