63 Quotes by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

The present only is a man’s possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from it, – in degree, perhaps, expiate it; but to brood over it is utter madness.

Better no marriage, than a marriage short of the best.

No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs the truth from the beginning. Make a clean breast to whomsoever you need to make it, and then face the world.

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born – he is made.

The wonder is not that some married people are less happy than they hoped to be, but that any married people, out of the honeymoon, or even in it, are ever happy at all.

When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture.

God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.

We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but those three words, “God is love ” ought to contain, to every doubting soul, the solution of all things.

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.