63 Quotes by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying – as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors.

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one’s own comfort and not for the comfort of one’s neighbors.

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence, without wearying of one another’s company.

Silence sweeter is than speech.

The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.

There was never a night that had no morn.

There is no sorrow under heaven which is, or ought to be, endless. To believe or to make it so, is an insult to Heaven itself.

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.