63 Quotes by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

It is not work that kills, but “worry.”

There can be there ought to be no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if not wickedness: to gossip about it is, in the first instance, intrusive, unkind, or dangerous; in the second, simply silly.

The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.

Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of “eccentricity” it will stand from anybody who takes the bull by the horns, too fearless or too indifferent to think of consequences.

To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots.

It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave.

A secret at home is like rocks under tide.

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.