63 Quotes by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.

Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.

Wedlock’s a lane where there is no turning.

With faces like dead lovers who died true.

What small account The All-living seems to take of this thin flame Which we call life. He sends a moment’s blast Out of war’s nostrils, and a myriad Of these our puny tapers are blown out Forever.

The irrevocable Hand That opes the year’s fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors Close after us, forever.

We are all of us very perfect creatures so long as we are not tried.

An author departs; he does not die.