20 Quotes by Hamilton Wright Mabie

All the queens of my acquaintance have children, some three, some seven, and some as many as twelve; and my queen has not one. I feel ill-used." So he made up his mind to be cross with his wife about it. But she bore it all like a good patient queen as she was.

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

Then the maiden climbed into a tree, and, seating herself in the branches, began to knit.

Don’t be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

To have a quiet mind is to possess one’s mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one’s self.

Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for – life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience – and what he gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways.

There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man’s character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.

A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.