15 Quotes by Corra May Harris

There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the only people I know who can leap into an enormous vocabulary of words and beat them up with the wings of their spirit into a fine hysterical eloquence.

The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the moral duties of Christians in cities, leads as naturally to the outvent of what Methodists call “revivals” as did the backslidings of the people in those days.

I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me that I may have felt intellectual. I entertained views too noble or too bitter to be true. I must have done some soul-stretching of my mental neck.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had – the terrible wisdom of love.

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.